Re: [tied] The Magic Mountain

I am suprized that I have reply to your post.
I think it was alex one.

Konushevci
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--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "m_iacomi" <m_iacomi@...> wrote:
> --- 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