Re: [tied] RE: etyma for =?UNKNOWN?Q?=EF=BF=BD?= Romanian forChristm

28-12-03 02:30, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> 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.

Oops, East Slavic <koroc^un> (the expected form) is in fact attested,
and <krac^un> could be a hybrid form with the East Slavic development of
*-tj- and Slovak vocalism.

Piotr