Re: Mohyla-Movila

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

>
> > >Coincidence just happens.
> >
> > This mugel-mögel-mogil-magur-etc. seems to be more than
> coincidence...
> >
> From an article by Kaisa Häkkinen the appendix "oldest Uralic/Finno-
> Ugric vocabulary from Uralisches etym. Wörterbuch" (not very exact)
>
> *mäke "hügel, berg"
> *mäkte "rasenhügel [grassy mound?], hügel"
>
> No suggestion that the -t- is the inner-Finnic (??).
>
> I also found a Skt. magha- "sacrifice" (vel sim.) but now I can't
> find it.
>
> Torsten

Finnish (nom.) mäki hill (gen.) mäen
Estonian (nom.)mägi hill (gen.) mäe

My etymological dictionary doesn't give cognates outside Finnic
though.

Peter P