From: g
Message: 28186
Date: 2003-12-08
>>the older pan-Romanian variant of it <nour> ['no-ur]!OTOH, <nebula> => Rum. <negura> "mist" & "haze" (and fig.
>><nor> is very... young. (I for one suspect <nour> some kinda
>>derivation of *<novur> or *<nobur <= *<novul>...)
>
>Interesting. That points to *nobulu-, which might be from *nubulu- <
>nu:b(i)lu- via vowel dissimilation (contamination with *nebula-?).
>
>Piotr