Re: Albanian Christian religious terminology

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, g <george.st@...> wrote:

>> is that which derives "CRACIUN" from the Latin "CREATIO".

Actually from accusative "creationem"

> Yes, this is the main hypothesis. The next one is COLLATIO.

Sure this is a typo. The other Latin infered word is "calatio"
(acc. "calationem") `convoking, calling, summoning`. Latin -ll-
does not rhotacize in Romanian, "collatio" can't be taken into
account.

> Both of them are quite old hypotheses. A third one refers to
> the meaning "log" in connection with the solstice fire or so.
> (I don't know whether there are few or many people attracted
> by speculations re. the 3rd hypothesis; I only heard a
> Romanian scholar, Cicerone Poghirc, talk of it on the radio.)

Gr. Brancus puts it on the list of "probable" substrate words.
Others (including I.I. Russu) don't. Poghirc does not mention
it in the chapter about substrate influence in TILR.

>> (including Arian elements)
>
> Perhaps.

Might be, but this has to be sustained also by other factual
arguments, otherwise it remains just a speculation.

Regards,
Marius Iacomi

PS - Aromanian word for `Saviour` is "Ascâpâtorlu"