Starting in the middle ages, they used to catch ducks and other waterfowl with a special building that was a big trap. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
In an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, Mbabaram, the word for "Dog" is almost exactly the same as the English word for "Dog". The similarity is a complete coincidence. (en.m.wikipedia.org) …the Mbabaram word for “dog” was in fact dúg, pronounced almost identically to the Australian English word…