agony? ( it was: Re: Yugoslawia)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "altamix" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> >
> > Mmmm..hmm.. agoj < *agonj < *agonyos ? That remember me of
> neologism
> > agony in English and the meaning by now appears very interesting.
> > I would like to search in the evening about the ultimately
> etimology
> > of "agony", maybe one finds something out.
> >
> > Alex
> *******
> Alex, do your searching before you post your free-association
> musings.
> From on-line Merriam-Webster:
> " ag·o·ny
> Etymology: Middle English agonie, from Late Latin agonia, from

Greek

> agOnia struggle, anguish, from agOn gathering, contest for a prize,
> from agein to lead, celebrate" (< *ag^-)
> Dan

First, thank you for the info Daniel.
Second, I don't know if this is indeed just a free
association.Rom. "a ajuna", Alb. "agjërim" ( *agenim(?)) means "to
fast" which is in fact a religious celebration. The forms are too
very appropiate to Greek "agein", don't you find?

But we ar off topic by now regarding "jug" as "south". It appears the
Alb. "jug" and Slavic *jug-" are not related to these roots from the
point of view of the semantic aspect.

Alex