Re: [tied] Re: Mohyla-Movila (and mare/kan)

g wrote:

>> that in the 14th and 15th c. the main meanings of the
>> word in Moldavia were "kurgan" and "hill", but it
>
> In Romanian, "kurgan" is "gorgan" [gor-gán], and refers
> only to... kurgans, i.e. those tumuli of the Scythian and
> Celtic kind. movila (subdialectal also moghila) means all
> kind of heaps up to hillocks/hills. (There was also a Rum.
> princiary family, Movila, among whom one was AFAIK
> metropolit in Kiev and had some important eccl.-theol.
> writings.)
>> George

gurgan; cf DEX = movila inaltata deasupra unui mormant strãvechi; (hill
builded upon an ancient grave); etym. compare with Russian "kurgan"

gurgui: cf DEX = 1) partea din varf a opinicii stransa cu nojite; 2)
partea mai strâmta, in forma de cioc, de la gura urciorului; 3) Varful
sânului; sfârc; mamelon; 4) varful unui deal sau al unui munte; etym.
compara cu latinescul "gurgulio"= beregata

gurgui; cf DEX = 1) the appex of the moccasin; 2)the tight part of the
jug which has the form of a beak; 3)nipple; 4) top of a mountain or top
of a hill; etym. compare with Latin "gurgulio"=throat

alex