Re: [tied] Slavic "drag-"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> Miguel Carrasquer 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
> > mcv@...
>
> Thank you Miguel. Is the Slavic form "dragostI" present just in the
> South Slavic?

Russian _dorogost'_ exists (see e.g.
http://dic.academic.ru/misc/enc2p.nsf/ByID/NT00038546 ), but I only
got 14 hits when I googled for it in Cyrillic. I got 3 hits on
_dragost'_ in Cyrillic, but one might have been Belorussian (
kamunikat.net.iig.pl/www/knizki/ brama/kraj1-2-2002/11.htm ), and
the other two both had associations with Pskov (
www.hrono.ru/statii/2003/1311-1318.html ,
gubernia.pskovregion.org/number_58/13.php ), whatever that implies.

I would say the answer is 'no', whatever the precise meaning of your
question.

Richard.