Re: [tied] The Magic Mountain

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci" wrote:

> I think that place name <Magura> is just suffixed form of Palb.
> *mag-'big' with attested suffix -ura (cf. <pëlhurë> 'fabric,
> cloth', besides <plaf> 'wollen cover, cover, mantel', <zërmurë>
> from <zjarr> 'fire', katrahurë 'massacre'), present also in
> Romanian and Italian languages.

What place name are you referring at? In my post there is only one
reference, that is:

>> [...] presence of the word "moGoro" `low hill` and toponym
>> "Mogoro" in Campidanese (with proparoxytone stress, cf. M. Wagner)

... that is in Sardinia and has a different spelling. For this name
one cannot infer -ura > -oro because of unsurmountable phonetic
problems.

Regards,
Marius Iacomi