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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <george.st@...> wrote:
> The question will be then whether the spelling
> Dragulya reflects the Romanian drãculea (which simply
> means "li'l devil", i.e. the diminutive to dracul "the devil"),
> or whether it's to be read as a variant of the name Dragul
> "the/my/our dear" < (Slavic) adj. drag "dear," that has
> generated so many (sur)names & nicknames in Romanian.
I know a Russian Drogaitsev who insists his family came from Bulgaria
at some indeterminate time in the past. I asked a Bulgar friend
whether he had heard of the familiya, but he said no, and that it
didn't even look especially Bulgarian to him. It's hardly on topic
so please forgive me for bringing it up, but has anyone here any idea
about this name? Rumanian connections perhaps? On old maps I've
seen a lot of peoples sprinkled around the Black Sea that were not
where they ought to be in terms of post WWII borders - was the
Danubian frontier a little less significant for Bulgarian Slavs in
the bad old days?
Ben