Re: [tied] The Brahman and the Brain

I think it's not: multus has the same root as melior "better", and plus <
*pelH- "to fill, full"

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--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: João Simões Lopes Filho
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> Subject: Re: [tied] The Brahman and the Brain
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>
> > PIE mr- > Sanskrit mr-
>
> Not regularly, except of course when the rhotic is syllabic, as in
<mr.tá->. As for Indo-Iranian *mr- > Skt. br-, see Avestan mru:- /
Skt. bru:- 'speak' (this, to be sure, is PIE *l, which hardly makes a
difference). I think *mrég^H-mo:n is formally unassailable (or I
wouldn't have suggested it); the question is if the semantics is
plausible.
>
> Piotr

Hermann Møller claims (I believe I recall) a connection between
Latin 'multus' and 'plus'. Does that make sense?

Torsten






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