Re: [tied] Re: some terms for George

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:35:33 +0200, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>tolgs001 wrote:
>>> BTW, which should be the etym. of Slavic "satana"?
>>
>> From Greek < from Hebrew. (In Turkish, $eytan.)
>>
>>> alex
>>
>> George
>
>Since you mention turkish here, it ought one mention the word "ghiaur"=
>the bad one, the one with the wrong religion, the one who is not moslem.
>Can it be this is a adapted form of the christian term "diabolo"?

No. Turkish gâvur, judging by the spelling, is from Arabic.

>Now, the word "dracul", is not only in Romanian , as Mr Iacomi showed
>before, the word exist in French too and it means too "devil".

Drac was also used in Old Catalan in the meaning "devil" (Coromines
DEiCdlLC, III, p.195).

>- how is posible the derivation of Latin "draco" to give Albanian
>"dreq"?

dreq < *draki. I don't know where the -i comes from.


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