From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 33595
Date: 2004-07-23
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From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:44 PM
Subject: [tied] again Slavic "dragU"
> I suspect the Slavic "dragU" is not at all a Slavic word but a loan
> from Balkan form an word which can be direct derived from Latin
> "di:ligo:" which meant "gern haben, Liebe, Achtung".
>
> I guess there is no unanswered question versus how "di:ligo:" >
> "dragu"
There's no such thing as "Slavic dragU". The common Slavic form was *dorg-,
giving such reflexes as Polish drog-, Russian dorog-, Czech drah-, and South
Slavic drag-. The <ra> forms occur only in those Slavic languages in which
/Ra/ is the normal metathetic outcome of preconsonantal *oR (as in mlad- <
*mold- or gradU < *gordU). In archaic Kashubian names with the element
*dorgo- we atill have unmetathesised Dargo-, as in Dargota and Dargosl/aw (:
Polish Drogosl/aw, Czech Drahoslav, etc.).
Piotr