With Halloween around the corner, this is a reminder that the word vampire derives from the Serbian.
I try, but each year, they suck me in. Gold skeletons and an owl in a ghost tree. My oh my. Colors of fall and beyond are so upbeat. This doorway was special in some unspecified way: And how about this little car:
All hallows is everywhere
vampire(n.)
Online Etymology Dictionary
“spectral being in a human body who maintains semblance of life by leaving the grave at night to suck the warm blood of the living as they sleep,” 1732, vampyre, from French vampire (18c.) or German Vampir (1732, like the English word first in an account of Hungarian vampires), from Hungarian vampir, from Old Church Slavonic ǫpiri, ǫpyri (source also of Serbian vampir, Bulgarian vapir, Ukrainian uper), said by Slavic linguist Franc Miklošič to be ultimately from Kazan Tatar ubyr “witch,” but Max Vasmer, an expert in this linguistic area, finds that phonetically doubtful.
