Re: again Slavic "dragU"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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

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It seems you haven't understand Alex. He claims that proto-Slavic
*do:rgú 'dear'(OCHS dragú 'id.', South-Slavic <drag>) should be from
Balkan languages origin, because it has no parallels in other IE
languages. It is very present in Romanian vocabulary: draguTet,
dragoste, etc.
Nonetheless, I am interested could this adjective could be related
to <dru:gú> 'friend' (< *dHrougH-o-), for in many other languages
these words are related (cf. Lat. amicus 'friend', amabilis 'dear,
loved one', Eng. <friend> and Fryday "Veneris dies", Alb.
<dashamirë> 'friend' and <dashuri> 'love'). Maybe proto-Slavic form
*do:rgú should be corrected in *dHo:rgH-o-.

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