Re: [tied] Re: Vampire

tolgs001 wrote:

>
> The question will be then whether the spelling
> Dragulya reflects the Romanian drãculea (which simply
> means "li'l devil", i.e. the diminutive to dracul "the devil"),

Huh? Are you sure on what you say ? How does it happen the "-ea" is a
diminutival form ?
drãculea is not "little devil". If once it should have been understood
as such, in the written texts from XVI century until nowadays the suffix
"-ea" does not appear to make diminutival forms.

> So, NandriS's assumption is kinda commonly accepted
> knowledge in Romania, namely that Dracula should be
> understood as "Dracul's son" (for, otherwise, the Slavic
> -a ending means nothing in Romanian, i.e. a Romanian
> native-speaker does not understand its semantic
> function, although it plays a considerable role in
> Romanian onomastics).
>
> George

I am lost here. I am not aware of any meaning of "Dracula" in Rom.
beside the one of the new times regarding the vampire represented by it.
Why should one have understood the Slavic genitival "-a" as Rom.
speaker? Interesting, the "dracula" here seems to do not belong to the
ancient formations which ends in "lã" which are masculine names as
Lungilã, Fomilã, Setilã, Gerilã ( see I. Creangã) etc.

Alex