Re: Vampire

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <george.st@...> wrote:

> >Even I think that <strix> is a loan from Greek <strings> (cf.
> >Divkovich, Latinsko-hrvatski rjecnik, Zagreb, 1900, pp. 1012),
> >
> >Konushevci
>
> The Latin-German dictionary, Der kleine Stowasser (1910-1971)
> doesn't say <strix, strigis> is a loan, but only "compare" with...
>
> OTOH, is there any possibility that strix & strings are
> related to Engl. shriek, skirl < Scand. skraella? And it must
> be akin to Lat. vb. strideo (or strido), (stridere), stridi
> (akin to Greek trixo). cf. strident.
>

Danish 'strigle' 1. "currycomb", 2. "old hag, unpleasant old woman".
I suppose you _could relate them with some imagination-stretching
within Danish, but it's not very obvious.

Torsten