Re: [tied] Slavic "drag-"

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:54:35 +0100, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>mm, I tried to remember if this word was discussed here but I don't
>remember about a such discution. Which is its etymology of it and its
>acutaly reflex in Slavic languages?
>Or maybe one has some informations where I can see by myself about this
>word on the net?
>
>Slavic "drag-" with the meaning of "dear" I suppose.

"dear, precious, expensive".

Russ. dórog, dorogój; Ukr. dorohýj, Blr. darahí, Bulg. drag, SCr. drâg,
drâgi:, Slov. drag, Cze./Svk. drahý, Pol. drogi, Sorb. drohi/drogi; OCS
dragU, dragyjI. Proto-Slavic *dorgU (definite *dorgU-jI). Only Slavic, no
outside connections, as far as I know.

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