From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 25316
Date: 2003-08-25
> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:which, I
> >> So, the only jn~a_ni-s are non-pagans, christians?
> > ************
> > I guess that in the word <heath> should have impact <heat>,
> > am afraid, was motivation of Alb. <vapë> 'heat' from PIE root*wap-
> > 'evil, bad' (<evil> is derived from suffixed zero-grade form ofthis
> > root *up-elo (see Watkins, wap-).suffixed
> > Nasalized form of this root is *wamp-, which could derives
> > form <vampir> 'devil', common word in East Europe and SouthEurope.
> > It's quite interesting that this word is used in connection withbut I
> > _evil_: <vapë e dreqit> 'evil's heat'. There are in Albanian, I
> > guess, folk etymology of this word <dhampirës> 'sucking teeth',
> > beleive that have much to deal much more with regular alternationv-
> > /th-.even
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Konushevci
>
> I can just give you some suplimantary infos from Rom.
> For Alb. "vapë" there is Rom. "vãpaie" with a lot of derivatives,
> prefixed with "s". There is too the expresion "vãpaia dracului"which is
> the same as Alb. "vapë e dreqit", the meaning being the same "evil'sbeing
> heat".
> For Vampir there is just "vampir" but I don't remember the word
> used in folk. In Rom. Lang this seems to be a neologisms. The wordsused
> for "vampir" are strigoi, moroi, and such stuff, nothing relatedwith
> the phonetical construction of "vampir".of
> The word "zamfir" has at the first view no connection for the sense
> "dhampir" since it means "safire" or "oriole" and its etymology (just
> for the meaning "safire") is given as from Slavic "samfirU"; for theafter "n" in
> meaning "oriole" there is an unknown etymology.
>
> Question: does the stop after "m" not become a sonor one as
> Alb.?************
>
> Alex