Mygdonia x Makedonia

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 45499
Date: 2006-07-24

I picked this below from URL http://members.tripod.com/~Groznijat/thrac/j_hill.html

Mygdonía
(Thuk., Ptol.), Mygdonís (Strab.), Mygdonia (Plin.) - region along the middle and lower course of Ehedoros (Galiko) down to the sea, to the east of Vardar. These low-lands contain a number of swamps, that is why Mygdonia may be interpreted as ‘swampy country’ from the IE *Mu:ko-ghdho:m, the first component being related to the Latv. muka ‘swamp, where one can sink’, mukls ‘swampy’, the Lith. muklìs ‘damp, swampy’, compare with the Lith. river name Moke the Zhemait. river name Muka, Mukja, the Latv. place name Mukas, etc.; the second component is related to the Greek chtho:n ‘soil, land’, the Old-Ir. du, (Genitive) don ‘place, country’, etc. Compare also the Thracian place name Rumbo-dona.
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(Addition) *Migledoni Latvian: Migla; fog. Doni; marsh reeds. *The place of
fog and marsh reeds. 2) Magdona; also a town in Latvia.


It is point to an interesting clue for Makedonia, -donia < *gHdHom ?

Joao SL


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