Re: [tied] mereu

m_iacomi wrote:

>> Mereu fits semanticaly and phoneticaly with eng. "more", German
>> "mehr"
>
> It does not. "mereu" (/meréw/ - `always`, `(for) ever`) has no
> phonetical similarity with English "more" and German "mehr", both
> these words having the stress on the first syllable and no similar
> ending. For the meaning, the discrepancy is even worse.
> Germanic -r- comes specifically from a comparative grade, there
> is no /r/ in the IE root for "much" itself ("meg^(H)- Pok. 1240).

so so. And Rom. "r" from "mare" should derive from "g^" (joking)? I
assume you have already the explanation of "mare" since the comparative
"mai" should derive from latin "magis" where "gi" did not became "j" as
usual but it just went in space as in ego > eu.
Hei.. I am just ears to hear your explanation of "mare" and of "r" from
it.

I hope you are aware that the phenomen of mare & mereu is not a Rom.
singular fact but the same happened in Germ. where mehr & immer. I don't
see what stops me to see this relationship. Can you help?:-)

> Marius Iacomi

Alex