Re: [tied] Re: etyma for =?UNKNOWN?Q?Cr=E3ciun=2C?= RomanianforChris

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 28914
Date: 2003-12-29

29-12-03 19:11, tgpedersen wrote:

> Thanks, but you didn't answer the question: Why "must've"? Could the
> word not be older, since there is already one supposedly Albanian-
> substrate word in the area?

Well, "vatra" is not an isolated wanderwort but part of a whole package
of words that the migrating Daco-Romanians took with them wherever they
went. Other typical Polish examples from the same (Carpathian) area
include such items as <bryndza> 'sheep cheese' (<-- Rom. brânzã),
<Magura> 'hill' (in placenames <-- Rom. mãgurã), and <redyk> 'sheep
drove' (<-- Rom. ridica 'raise, collect, assemble').

Piotr