[tied] Re: Dog

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> > 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.
>
> Latin canis obviously doesn't fit with *kWn.- either (loan from the
> Old European 'a-language'), so how would the assumption of a proto-
> Albanian *kan(d)- be in violation of Occam? That would not add any
> extra root to the ones we already have to assume.
>
> Torsten

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There is no violation of Occam's Razor from proto-Albanian *kant- >
kand-i > qen 'dog'. Only Tosk form <qëne> 'bitch' and Geg one
<qêth> 'Geschwur unter der Zunge'(noticed by Meyer, EWAS, 222) may
lead us to much older preform <kent->, probably derived from suffixed
zero-grade form *k^wn.-to, like Old English <hund> 'dog'.

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