Re: [tied] RE: etyma for =?UNKNOWN?Q?Cr=E3ciun=2C?= Romanian forChri

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 28809
Date: 2003-12-28

28-12-03 02:08, Mate Kapovic wrote:


> 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.

The problem is, Bulgarian (+ OCS) has *tj > *s^t, and East Slavic has
*kortj- > *koroc^-. If the Slavic form is indeed *krac^- with _old_ *ra
(not from mliquid metathesis), it can't be related to *kort(-Uk)-
'short'. The only solution I see is a wandering loan from a dialect
related to Serbo-Croatian or Slovene that had the word.

Piotr