From: Mate Kapovic
Message: 28808
Date: 2003-12-28
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 2:03 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] RE: etyma for Crãciun, Romanian forChristmas
> 28-12-03 00:39, Mate Kapovic wrote:
>
> >> Slavic <krac^un> (in connection with both solstices)
> >> must be related to these too.
> >>
> >> George
> >
> > It is also found in Hungarian Karácsony. The word is obviously Slavic,
from
> > krat7k7 "short", kratj6j6 "shorter" etc.(~ solstices). Semantics fits,
> > phonology fits and a Slavic etymon is the only possible since the word
is
> > found in Slavic, Hungarian and Romanian.
>
> And of course, since krac'- or krac^- < *kortj- represents a dialectal
> development, it's even more specifically a loan from non-Bulgarian South
> Slavic.
>
> Piotr
But there is no such word in Croatian or Serbian. Only as somekind of a name
not necessarily related, not in the meaning Christmas. And Bulgarian also
has a name like krac^un. The meaning Christmas is attested in Ukrainian and
Rusinian (Slovak dialect) if I am not mistaking.
Mate