RE: [tied] RE: etyma for Crćciun,Romanian for Christmas, correction

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 28888
Date: 2003-12-29

>Cf.
> also Polish karcz 'rooted-out stump of a tree' (perhaps from
> unmetathesised Northwest Slavic *korc^-jI, if not from reduced-grade
> *kUrc^-).

Probably the latter in spite of Belarusian _korc^_ 'id.' (if not a
Polonicism), Russian _korc^evati_ 'root out'.

Sergei