From: george knysh
Message: 23487
Date: 2003-06-18
> I think that the word "kraciun" must has pre-Slavic*****GK: Interesting. How would you relate this to the
> origin, because
> it is also present in Albanian as <k�rcuni>
> `tree-stump; stub. �
> log. fig. meaning `lonely; bereft' and <k�rcune>
> `lonely woman',
> preserved in one or other way, much oldest form
> "kraciun". In fact,
> it is prefixed form, formed by Alb. prefix k�r-/g�r-
> and Alb. word
> <cung> `tree-stump, stub', which I have discussed in
> this list a
> weak before from a nasalized prefixed zero-grade
> from *t- + sunk- of
> PIE root *sek- `to cut'.
>
> Konushevci