From: Rick McCallister
Message: 66471
Date: 2010-08-18
cf.
Portuguese dardo (javelin, spear, dart, bolt, darts)
Russian дротик (drotik) (javelin, dart)
Ukrainian кидальний дротик (javelin),
дротик (javelin, needle)
Apparently the Greek(?) doru, dorat- appears in no other Slavic language. One
might wonder how that distribution came about.
For Spanish, DRAE says
dardo.
(Del fr. dard, y este del franco *darod; cf. ingl. ant. darodh).
1. m. Arma arrojadiza, semejante a una lanza pequeña y delgada, que se tira con la mano.
2. m. mújol.
3. m. Dicho satírico o agresivo y molesto.