Re: [tied] Re: Vampire

Since this differs cardinally from Machek's-Trubachev's etymology
reported by Piotr, could you mention the author of the etymology you
reported?

Sergei

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> From: Mate Kapovic [mailto:mkapovic@...]
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> -og7 is a suffix like in ostrog7. The stem *rar- with a
> different suffix can be seen in Croatian rarov "a kind of
> eagle". *rar7 is made with the suffix *-r7 like in dar7 and
> pir7 from dati and piti, and the very stem *ra- is most
> likely onomatopoeic origin.
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> Mate
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