From: Dr Dan Waniek, MD
Message: 27754
Date: 2003-11-27
> Dr Dan Waniek, MD wrote:(PION).
> > Hello All!
> >
> > There is an interesting theory in France about proto-ionians
> > I kindly submit my proposal for a discussion of older etyma here,some
> > starting from some interesting points made by Jean Faucouneau
> > (concerning pre-mycenaean Greek.) Despite his pathological self-
> > effacing habits, Jean, inter alia, helped decypher the famous
> > Pahistos disk.
> >
> > First a word about formats in my own database:
> > ----
> > 0002-DARO-M-0300 (eimieion PION mereu DARO, PHRE ROTA)
> > ----
> > only states that 'eimieion' - by some phonetical metathesis and
> > rotacism - yielded 'mereu' in Dacoromanian, and this is my secondGerman "mehr"
> > conjecture, with a score of three in a scale of ten :) Any other
> > idea is highly appreciated.
>
> eimeion > mereu ? ; phoneticaly imposible.
>
> Mereu fits semanticaly and phoneticaly with eng. "more",
> and it is cognate with Rom. "mare" ( big), "mãri" (to become big)as the
> Germanic vermehren the same does...Thank you Alex!
> PIE *me-
>
> Alex