[tied] Re: some terms for George

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

[AK] I doubt that here we have to do indeed with semitic word
<kefar> 'village' (cf. Caphernaum) with meaning of
<peasant> 'ubeliever' (cf. pagus 'village' and paganus 'inhabitant
of the village, ubeliever', which in Albanian derives i pëgërë, të
pëgërët 'mess, dirt'), even there are opinions that it is from
Persian word <gebr> 'unbeliever, christian'.

> >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.

[AK] -i in Albanian is regular ending of masculine names in definite
form (undefinite form: një drak, definite: draki). The plural in
this case is formed through metaphony or Umlaut.

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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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