Re: [tied] RE: etyma for Crãciun,RomanianforChristmas

From: Mate Kapović
Message: 28860
Date: 2003-12-29

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
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Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] RE: etyma for Crãciun,RomanianforChristmas



> It isn't _absolutely_ impossible. I was considering a Hungarian filter
> as a possible source of false pleophony (/kra-/ --> Hung. /kOrO-/ -->
> East Slavic /koro-/. I admit, however, that the evidence produced by you
> and by Sergei looks decisive.

OK, but honestly this looks like science fiction to me. *Why* oh *why* would
Old Russian get an originally Slavic word from Hungarian? Is there another
such example? I would say no. And another thing, Hungarian word is Karácsony
with the final -o-. How would you get East Slavic regular -u- from that? *o:
> *u in Slavic, but this is not an [o:] in Hung., and this *o: > *u was in
any case probably earlier than 9th century when the Hungarians came. Also,
Slavic word has final stress. Cf. Croatian kra` cˇu:n (short rising on the
first and length on the second one), Bulg. kracˇún and East Slavic also has
desinential stress. I remind you, Hungarian has the stress always on the
*first* syllable. So I would say no way for your theory.
Mate