From: S & L
Message: 28900
Date: 2003-12-29
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From: "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 5:16 PM
Subject: RE: [tied] RE: etyma for Craciun,Romanian for Christmas
> > and this
> > meaning
> > of `other feast` must have been early developed in Slavic since in
> > that
> > Russian Novgorod Chronicle the word already refers to a summertime
> > period
> > not coincidental with solstice).
>
> I don't think this is a crucial point in your argumentation (and I'm not
> taking sides), but just for the record: the word in the Novgorod chronicle
> is explained as 'winter solstice' both in Sreznevskij's dictionary and the
> fundamental Old Russian dictionary issued by the Institute of the Russian
> language; Trubac^ev's ESSJ gives the same meaning (and, AFAIK, the meaings
> of Old Russian words were usually re-checked for the ESSJ, the dictionary
> cardfile being next door to the ESSJ team's office). I don't know where
> Bernecker has got the meaning you quote.
>
> Sergei
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In February 1998, the Romanian slavist Gheorghe Mih?il? had a presentation
in front of the Romanian Academy on “Despre Cr?ciun si alte probleme
etimologice” [“On Christmas and others etymological problems”] in which he
explained, among other things, that the Novgorod Chronicle is, in fact, only
a latter variant on a earlier text originally from the ukrainian regions.
S o r i n