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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans@...> wrote:
> I guess it's German betrügen "to deceive" which is related to Skt.
> druh.
Pokorny reconstructs the underlying PIE root as *dhreugh- `to
deceive' and includes in his material the following European cognates:
Celtic: Middle Irish aur-ddrach `ghost'.
Germanic: Old Saxon bidriogan, Old High German triogan `deceive';
Old Norse draugr `ghost'; Old Saxon gidrog `delusion'; Old High
German gitrog `deceit, devilish phantasmagoria'; Old Norse draumr,
Old High German troum, Old Saxon dro:m `dream'.
A. Lubotsky (see at
http://tinyurl.com/226ras) reconstructs the
PIIr. form as *dhraugh- `to deceive', whose main derivatives are
Vedic druh- `deceit, malice' (later also `harm, injury') and Avestan
druj- `deceit, lie'.
From the PIIr. form *dhraugha- (< PIE *dhrough-o-) `deceit' are
derived Vedic drogha- `lie, deceit' and Avestan draoga- `lie'.
Regards,
Francesco