Re: [tied] The Magic Mountain

> Now <magullë> for *mogyla [magu:la:] shows exactly the same pattern

and

> allows one to assume a pre-rhotacism loan into both Albanian and
> Romanian from a common source.


> Independent borrowing from Iranian is of couse a
> possibility, but a less likely one, since the word is not directly
> attested in Iranian, while it's found everywhere in Slavic. The
> assumption of a Slavic source is simply safer on methodological

grounds

> -- ask Ockham

This is perhaps almost frivolous, but ... Several placenames in
Jutland have a prefix Møgel-, explained as from Jysk 'møgel' "big"
(today 'møj') (cf. Mickle etc). But then I thought: *magul- plus u-
umlaut > *møgel- ...

Torsten