From: alex_lycos
Message: 19514
Date: 2003-03-02
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From: <akonushevci@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 5:37 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: dracones
> There are in Alb. dreq "devil" and drangon "snake"
> For me, Alb. drangon (not dragon) is much later than Greek drakon,
> or Latin draco, -nis. Loans aren't one way roads. We use to see ore
> to look just in one way direction, as all words in other languages
> are loans from one much early documented languages
>
> Abdullah
>
In rom. are too "drac"= devil and dragon= dragon.
The word "dragon" is a neologism the ancient name for dragon is "balaur"
almost like albanin balë.
We have to remmeber about the dacian plants called "dracila" and the
romanian plant caled too drãcila.