[tied] Re: Dog

> I guess that Pokorny was wrong, because we have attested place

names

> in Illyria with second part -via: Dom-a-via > Argentaria >
> Srebernica, Set-o-via (today Studenci). So, my segmentation looks
> more plausible: Cand-a-via. This kind of composition is very common
> in Albanian too: mal-a-zog 'bird of forest', gur-a-kuq 'red

stonte',

> etc.

That looks like an Iranian izafet(-like) construction. Is it, and if
yes, how did Albanian acquire it?

Torsten