From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 38212
Date: 2005-06-01
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "pielewe" <wrvermeer@...> wrote:
...
> The Russian words for "music", "Muses" etc. all have a -z- and I
> strongly doubt if anybody ever feels a connection with "musor"
> and "Musorgskij".
The only thing I can add to this excellently reported story is that
the addition of the <g> has produced a folk-etymological connection
with Greek mousourgos 'musician', apt enough for the composer (and
occasionally circulated by his biographers, I think) but otherwise
unreal.
Piotr