Re: [tied] again Slavic "dragU"

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:14:32 +0200, alex
<alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>Do I make a mistake or the South Slavi languages ( Bulg/Serb-Croatina)
>they have too the words as "druga", "drug" ? If yes, then are these
>words not deriving from the same CommonSlavic *dorg-?

No.

>I just want to
>point out here about the semantic aspect of "drag" and the semantic
>aspect of "drug" which is not the same even if one tries to link them
>together. The semantical aspect of Latin "di:ligo:" (to love, to like)
>will speak a lot for the semantic field of Rom. "dragu" and there are
>no formal troubles in deriving it from the Latin word.

There's _nothing but_ formal troubles. Di:ligo: is not "to
love", it's "I love". Drag(u) is an adjective (>
substantive), not a 1p. sg. verbal form. Phonetically,
di:ligere may have given *dreg^-, never drag-. It's all a
waste of time, as usual.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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