Re: etyma for Cr㣩un,Romanian for Christmas, correction

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

> Correction
>
> >If the sense was once "tree" or "yule log" there is ON

<kraki> "tree

> > with branches cut off", which would then be borrowed after Grimm,
> but
> > before the last Slavic palatalisation (or all from some substrate
> > language?).
> >

Rolf Kraki was given his by-name, according to Saxo, because he
looked like a <kraki>; in other words the word 1) can be used as a
personal name, and 2) can mean a bent, stooped man(?). Since Saxo
thought an explanation was needed, it seems the diverse semantics of
the word caused frowns already then?

Torsten