I would have to question how Slavic "drag"/"dorog" (dear/expensive) could come to be equated with any semblance of (devil). It seems rather far-fetched to me, especially considering how extreme Dark Age "christians" <<lower case intentional>> were; ie. the Inquisitions. It seems to me that anyone who would make any sort of such demonic equations would be putting his/her life on the line. Perhaps the Orthodox Church didn't honor the Roman Catholic call to expose and punish (burn) so-called heretics (I don't know -- did they or did they not?), but making such an equation would still have been extremely perilous.
Andy Howey
Ben McGarr <celteuskara@...> wrote:
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <george.st@...> wrote:
> The question will be then whether the spelling
> Dragulya reflects the Romanian dr�culea (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.