Re: [tied] Slavic "drag-"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> 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.
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

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Lettish 'da:rgs' "valuable" and late 21st century English 'droog'
"companion" (see Anthony Burgess "Clockwork Orange") but both
probably (the latter certainly) derivatives from Slavic rather than
cognates.
Dan