Re: Greek "mysia", German Mysien/Moesien, Cyrillic " Mizija"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

> The only thing I can add ... 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.

Never known about that, but it's quite obvious and convincing once
you've seen it. Until this morning I'd managed to miss the association
with "music" altogether.


W.