From: alex
Message: 28618
Date: 2003-12-19
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:54:35 +0100, alex <alxmoeller@...>Thank you Miguel. Is the Slavic form "dragostI" present just in the
> 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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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...