Talk:strzyga

Etymology

Does it come [directly] from Greek indeed?

According to Aleksander Brückner, the word is derived from Strix, Latin for owl and probably the origin of the term Strigoi, ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strzyga Brückner is not VER by now.

Zezen (talk) 17:30, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Well, z deszczu pod rynnę, e.g. with this even older one:

1. ^ Miklosich, Franz (1886), “striga”, in  (in German), Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, page 326a

with its "das striga/sztrzyga wort came from X, Y into Z" and that's it, but better four sources (some maybe circular) than one.

See Wiktionary:Etymology scriptorium/2021/December#Polish strzyga for more comments. Zezen (talk) 16:45, 6 December 2021 (UTC)