Re: Historical implications of Romanian ecclesiastical terminology

>I think that the word "kraciun" must has pre-Slavic origin,

I suppose in the Slavic world there is a Summer kratchun too
(solstice rites).

>because it is also present in Albanian as <kërcuni> `tree-stump;

It must be related to Romanian and Bulgarian crac (plur. craci),
cracã (plur. crãci), crengã ("twig, branch") and krak respectively.

>In fact, it is prefixed form, formed by Alb. prefix kër-/gër- and
>Alb. word <cung> `tree-stump, stub',

kër + çung might be rather a local, Albanian interpretation, that
might have nothing to do with the real etymology of the word.
After all, if it were a prefixed çung, why isn't there *kërçung?

OTOH, for Romanian and Slavic languages must have been highly
improbable to make a kra- out of kër.

>Konushevci

George