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* In English, the word " dog " can have two apparently unrelated meanings: " a kind of carnivorous mammal " or " to pursue with unflagging patience.

" We hardly ever bother to write something like " dog ( the mammal )", even when we write something like, " The feral dog dogged the human invaders of its territory until they eventually left the area.

" Perhaps the same kind of thing was going on in these ancient writings, and people felt that they did not need to add a meaning component to these characters to make their meaning clear.