[tied] Re: some terms for George

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 7:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: some terms for George
> >- 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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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...
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> the etymology of Latin word does not help too much since this word

is in

> Latin a loan from Greek. Maybe the etymology of the greek

word "drakon,

> drakontos" will make a bit light here.
>
> Alex

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Supposedly related to 'derkomai' "to look at" or "to flash the eye".
I assume this is from Pokorny 349 *derk- "blicken", but the Leiden
Pokorny site is hanging up past the index again.
Dan