Re: Mare

>The use of <kan> for <nagy> is reported from the River Szamos (Some$)
>area.

Oh! (This is in central Transylvania.)

>Seldeslachts speaks of a Romanian/Hungarian "parallel" and
>refrains from further speculation, but of course the shared association
>may well be an areal thing.

Hm... (That's almost my region, but I've never heard of something
like this; it's OTOH true that my knowledge of Hungarian leaves
very much to be desired, so I'd have to ask experts on Hung.
Transylvanian subdialects.)

But wouldn't this parallelism suppose some "masculine-big"
relation in Romanian as well? (OTOH, according to the Rum.
dictionary, Rum. linguists tend to assume this etymology,
Lat. mas, maris.)

>Piotr

George