Vampire
Vampire.. why does this word appear in so many languages? Are we…. I mean.. they taking over the world???
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now you get me i though our Upír is so far away from Vampír
Bram stoker was a gadje, not a vampire. He embarassed the vampire community by writing that book, and turned many humans against them. In ancient times, vampires and humans coexisted peacefully. A vampire would mark a human or humans as “theirs” and that human or those humans, would supply the vampire with blood, and in turn be protected from any other vampires who may wish to hurt the human. I forgot the term for a human so marked…
Now, that rarely happens, because of bram stoker. Now, vampires have to kidnap people at the risk of being caught, or feed on animal blood.
Reference: Book: Vampire High By: Douglas Rees
By the way, where does the word “gadje” come from?
Gadje is a word used to describe someone who is not part of a specific group.
Syn: outsider?
Gadje is used as a demeaning term for non gypsies (aka. Roma).
Gadje is also used (in this case) to mean a non vampire.
Am I wrong?
Vampires appear in all the slavic folklore.As the woman from the video said,this word exist in many languages:vapir,vampir,upir,vopir.
In bulgarian “вопир”(vopir) i think that it comes from “во” (vo) which is archaic word for “in” and “inside”, and “пир”(pir) which is an archaic word for drinking.
“пир-шество” means drinking for pleasure.So “вопир” is affliliated to “впивам се” which has similar meaning.Therefore “вопир” is an archaic word for someone who is atached to something in order to drink something.It is used also for the blood drinking insects.
The origin of the word comes from Serbian Language. Try to search for it. Here it is called vampir. This link will help you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sava_Savanović
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Dear HotForWords,
Is there any Relation to the Words Dracula and Drak as in Dragon?
Your Student,
ThoughtOnFire
yes… Dracula was the last name of VLad Dracula III, dracula was the son of Dracul… which means dragon or devil. Dracula basicly means son of the dragon or son of the devil
The word is shrouded in obscurity but more than likely came from two words: Upir Lichyj…from slavic languages I believe.
Ave Domina,
Incredible! Terrifying! Gorgeously horrible! I am sure that after this lesson the poor mortals watching your website will be mesmerized and will suscribe. And evil will win.
servus ad vitam eternam
Don Felipe Gonzales
Bram Stoker’s sequel was called “The Vampire Strikes Back.” It was inspired by a story written by George Lucius.
I wanted to thank Marina so very much again for including my name on YouTube as one of the persons who requested the word “Vampire”–From the bottom of my soul Marina*muahs* and to Kobe too (please don’t bite me cutie hehe) love Mikey AKA WarlordFeyd…
Hmmm. Where to put this?
I hope you do more Halloween videos this year. If you do, my word request is warlock. I’ve never quite believed the ‘male witch’ line that I’ve heard as a definition.
In my opinion the word vampire originaly came from romania becouse the first man ever called with that word is Vlad Tzepesh (count Dracula)
PS: I really like your prounociation of the word at bulgarian (Marina rulzzz)
You can have my blood any day Marina
My Grandpa looks like a Vampire but he is also very old…..I wonder if maybe he’s a “Grandpire”?
HEY !!! I think I just made up a “SNIGLET”.
What about us werewolves?
Hmm… If Marina died her hair black, put on make-up to darken her skin, had a black cape, black pants and other formal attire, she might just make a good immitation of Elizabeth Bathory in persona. In personality she radically differs of course.
Marina – I’m not comparing you to Elizabeth Bathory; please don’t misunderstand me on that.
Marina… You mentioned Danmark and Sweden again, but forgot to mention Norway amongs them. All those 3 countries have almost the same language. This is the second time now Marina! You will have detention!!
nice video marina; but why don´t you try in the dialects in the latinamerican cultures, as in europe in mesoamesican cultures existed living beings which lived on the the blood of other inferior species like animal and which also considered humans as inferior, they were called NAHUALES in mexico and they were half human half animal and also they were guardians of the imperial tresure, in fact, some say that this beings still exist and they are guarding the imperial treasure from moctezuma II at the top of the popocatepetl volcano in mexico, the legend says that if anyone gets closer to the treasure is never seen again. i hope this could help you dear
Is that like the chupa cabra?
And what about Czech? It’s “upír” or “vampýr”…
By the way – “upír” is pronounced same as the Polish one and “vampýr” is the same as the Russian one.
I did find this:
The word vampire also spelled, “vampir,” or “vampyre,” has obscure origins, but scholars generally agree that it can be traced to the Slavic languages. But the debate over this will continue, since there are many numerous theories. The word may have come from the Lithuanian wempti, which literally means “to drink”, or from the root pi, which has a similar meaning with the prefix va or av. Other scholars would scoff at this, however, and claim that the word had Turkish roots, such as the word, uber or “witch,” or the Serbo-Croatian pirati “to blow”. After all, the word vampircan be found in the Serbo-Croatian language and is upyr in Russian, upior in Polish, and upir in Byelorussian.
Some scholars insist that upir is older than vampir, an eastern Slavic name that spread westward into the Balkans. Scholars who hold this viewpoint claim that the word was then adopted by the southern Slavs and widely spread.
No one knows when the word vampire or vampyre was first used in the English language, but it appeared in two 1732 publications
Bobette Bryan © 2004
http://www.underworldtales.com/about.htm
OK about “Vampire” and the dark side. Please consider equal time for the other side which leads to my word request for “Nurture”.
“Nurture” from French “nourriture” and Latin “nutritia” and “nutrire” (nurse, nourish, suckle) has much for which your comments may be enlightening to understand a working mother’s need for time off.
Many of us (guys) could benefit from your perspective. How is that situation handled in other modern societies, e.g. Russia?
That necklace makes it look like you have had your head sewn on to your torso haha, love that vampire voice. very sexy
Word Request: jimmy, the noun and the transitive verb. Whose jimmy and what’s his story?
Aren’t zombies also supposed to be dead bodies that have come to life? I know that vampires suck blood and that zombies eat brains. But… vampires are called the “undead”, but zombies are called the “living dead”. What’s the difference?
A vampire sucks your blood and drains you dry. It may also turn you into another vampire. The reason why vampires were thought to roam the Earth was that the dead wasn’t given the proper burial procedure to lay the persons to rest. There were also concerns of disease spreading from vampires.
In the case of zombies, a person was drugged, then thought dead, but really was still alive. The person went into a coma and came back, but was mindless and mute with less intellectual capacity than a mentally retarded person. So the person was essentially alive, but acted like he was “undead”. It comes from voodoo lore from Africa that migrated to the Caribbean. The notion of zombies eating human flesh to sustain themselves was completely made up by Hollywood movies.
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I’m a day late and a dollar short but: What about “Wamphyri” and “Vamphyri”? Or are those two just Brian Lumley inventions for the Necroscope series?
Hi Marina,
May I have a word with you please? …
Cockamammy or is that cockamammie? … No one really knows?
It sounds like it may have an arousing etyology.
MWAAAA xoxox Gwillikers!
Hey Marina: I would like to formally request the word—reckon. As in , ” I reckon, I’ll just head on over to Russia, and see them ladies for myself.”
Hey Marina… can i request another word??
Sorry about requesting another on the same time but..
I`m listening some “funk” music
and i love funk.
why that name???
Thanks again!
Ahaa Sorry for so many request ,but can you also find out where the word “Knockout” came from?
Ello Marina, Can you do a video about the word “Teddy Bear”. Was it invented by a teddy? thankyou.
Marina, My word request is the word “Hobo”. I’ve been wondering where that came from
Hey Marina. I was thinking about the word “lollipop” could you investigate where does it come from? sounds interesting. Also, how come people use the words sucker in an offensive way sometimes? I don’t see how this words is related!
Thank you, I love your show, I watch each episode through Miro. Keep up the good work!
Hi marina. As I had tiramisu for breakfast, Can i please request the word tiramisu?
James
xx
Yo quiero una vampira como Marina
can you do a vidio on why poop is called poop?
where does “knapsack” come from. why isn’t it “nap sack”…why the k?
Hi, could you investigate the term “Double dutch”?