RE: etyma for Crãciun, Romanian for Christmas

On Sat, Dec 27, 2003, at 02:33 PM, Dan Waniek wrote:

> So Creationem, cracã (Gothic hrugga) are our very interesting,
> if opposed candidates.
>
> Is there any possibility that Pokorny root # 1737 (s)ker-3,
> to turn, to bend, might be implied in these two ?
>
> Afterall we have Greek ku/rkos and Homeric kru/kos.

Slavic <krac^un> (in connection with both solstices)
must be related to these too.

George