Re: [tied] Re: Dog

Abdullah Konushevci 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.
>
> Konushevci

Question for Abdullah:

the particle "a" here is a ginitival or posesive maker? I mean "a" here
plays indeed the role of English "of"?
I ask it because in my dictionary there is no word about a such function of
"a" in Albanian.

Alex