Re: [tied] Greek "pirostiá"

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:
>>> The Neogreek word "pirostiá"
>>
>> Not in my dictionary.
>>
>> Peter
> ************
> Probably we have to deal with mixed word, formed from Greek <to
> pu:r> 'fire', Slavic suffix -ost (cf. slab 'weak', slab-
> ost 'weakness') and another suffix -ia.
> Very strange word, like Alex itself:}
>
> Konushevci

The problem seesm to be how one tries to analyse that word. But I guess
one has to wait until we know for sure the form in Bulgarian and in
Greek. I hope that the Rom. linguists did not make any mess and they
knew indeed about these words in Greek and Bulgarian.

Alex