[tied] Re: Vampire [was: Pagan, heathen ...]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Rader" <jrader@...> wrote:

> >
> > In view of this amassment of arbitrary suggestions (an ad hoc

infix

> > plus an ad hoc suffix), I'd say that the orthodox etymology of
> > <vampire> (Slavic *[v]o~pyrI) is preferable. It leaves nothing
> > unexplained and has the advantage of relating the Slavic words for
> > 'vampire' and 'bat' to each other.
> >
> > See
> >
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/14259
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/14263
> >
> > The interpretation I personally prefer is 'that which flies in',

since

> > 'in' is the normal meaning of Slavic *(v)o~ (the compositional

form of

> > the preposition/preverb *vUn-) in nouns.
> >
> > Why gloss <vampire> as 'devil'? A vampire is a vampire.
> >
> > Piotr
> >
> Piotr--
>
> Does *(v)o- really account for the mass of divergent outcomes this
> prefix takes in the attested forms? I don't know about "leaves

nothing

> unexplained".... How do you explain u-, vam-, va-, vU-, etc.?

Some word changes are un-intentional natural some intentional.
Those intentional may be fully or semi intentional. Althought is
dificult to point out which are which is safe to call it
1/2intentional. There are big literature on this subject usualy
located in the darkest library corners or hiden at all.
Some words may be spelled across other in reverse. S screched F-ated.
Repeted, repeted to make false so common than almost true. If you are
restricted to explore all the way how you can know that you not go in
semi stright way on spiral slope?

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Some dragons can day if faced by mirrors. Where from? From
bazyllik'szek. How? By forcefull moderation of unknown by
1/2understanding. Its not because stupid idea is easier to belive.
Not at all. It is just easier to enforce.

Like tested in this example.

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> Jim Rader