--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2006-04-12 22:18, George knysh wrote:
>
There's also <blagodaria> (not in
> West Slavic), but that smacks of a formal Church Slavicism and is, I
> believe, a calque from Gk. eukHarizo^.
>
> > When was "danke" borrowed into West Slavic?
>
> See above.
>
> Piotr
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There are some ambiguities here. Is the first element <blago>
'treasure' or <blag> 'soft with metaphorical extended meaning "good"'
and supporting -o- and second element <DAR> 'gift' that is equivalent
to the Greek <eukharizo'> 'pardon'. <blazen> 'blessed' looks to
preserves the primary meaning in Slavic <blessed gift>, despite the
Greek <good gift> 'eukharisma'.
Konushevci