OF "Mare"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" wrote:

> Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>>> 2)one example here: the word, "mare"= great is considered to
>>> belong to substratum. In Albanian the word is "madh", in OF
>>> was "mare"
>>
>> I'm not aware of any OF word <mare> "big".
>
> Chanson of Roland:
> vers 1604
> dient Franceis: barun, tqnt mare fus
> vers 2195 Aprés a dit: Mare fustes seigneurs
>
> vers 2221 Dist l'arcevesque : Tant mare fustes ber!
>
> The evidence for "mare"= great is even in OE in Glosarum saxonicum.

Where exactly?!

> Paranthesis. I am not sure if "ber" here is a short form of "baron".
> It looks similar with balcanic expresion "bre" which is considered
> to be of turkish origin in all Balkan.

Another piece of evidence, isn't it?! :)
I guess you checked all translations and you found out your
wishful thinking translation of "mare". Maybe you will explain
also why there is no final /s/, the generalized morpheme for
plural, in the sequence "mare fustes seigneurs"... according to
your translation one should expect "mares".
Thou ain't no fun on this.

Marius Iacomi