From: george knysh
Message: 23517
Date: 2003-06-18
>*****GK: Ukrainian "kortsh", meaning (1) uprooted tree
> >I think that the word "kraciun" must has pre-Slavic
> origin,
>
> I suppose in the Slavic world there is a Summer
> kratchun too
> (solstice rites).
>
> >because it is also present in Albanian as <k�rcuni>
> `tree-stump;
>__________________________________
> It must be related to Romanian and Bulgarian crac
> (plur. craci),
> crac� (plur. cr�ci), creng� ("twig, branch") and
> krak respectively.
>
> >In fact, it is prefixed form, formed by Alb. prefix
> k�r-/g�r- and
> >Alb. word <cung> `tree-stump, stub',
>
> k�r + �ung might be rather a local, Albanian
> interpretation, that
> might have nothing to do with the real etymology of
> the word.
> After all, if it were a prefixed �ung, why isn't
> there *k�r�ung?
>
> OTOH, for Romanian and Slavic languages must have
> been highly
> improbable to make a kra- out of k�r.
>
> >Konushevci
>
> George
>
>