Re: [tied] The Magic Mountain

m_iacomi wrote:

> ... but you yourself recognized that Slavic word remains basically
> unexplained. That means it should be probably a post-PIE specifical
> construction or loanword, which could very well located at some
> historical moment on the Satem branch, before its' further split.
> It's obvious that the word entered at some moment in Slavic or
> in one of its' ancestors, and Ockham has nothing to do with the
> choice of the historical moment of entrance. That is: nothing
> obliges us to infer it was invented or loaned by Proto-Slavs.
> Slavic origin theory for Albanian word doesn't require it, but
> Romanian phonetism and stress, and presence of the word "moGoro"
> `low hill` and toponym "Mogoro" in Campidanese (with proparoxytone
> stress, cf. M. Wagner) are suggesting the word was already in
> Mediterranean region prior to Slavs' arrival. That would require
> an insertion in a Satem (sub-)branch before split of Proto-Slavic.
> Regards,
> Marius Iacomi

There is something else too. With the meaning of "big" there is the
romanian "mãgãdãu" and "mãgãdan"= an unusual big man and a bit silly,
there is "mãgãoaie"= an imaginary creature big and ugly.
All these points to the root "maga-" or "mega-" because it means simply
"big".
I guess there is no need to show the cognates in the other IE languages
for "mega-"
Now the suffix "urã" from an " *-ula" or "-ule" ( with a typus of "l"
which could be rhotacised) is a suffix which make nouns. About the
suffix "-urã" I could not find any discution on it for showing if this
one is a Latin one or a Slavic one.
So it would be meg(V)(big) +ule (suf. for making nouns) > bigness
(highness) which is in fact the meaning of the word and it let himself
be very easy explained.

alex