Re: [tied] Re: Irish word >>mór<< 'BIG' and Romanian >>mare<

At 5:40:09 PM on Wednesday, August 3, 2005, alexandru_mg3
wrote:

> 3. Finally the Irish (Celtic) word 'mor' exists too, and
> its semantism is 100% the same with that one of the
> Romanian word 'mare': : the general notion of 'big' with
> no additional constraints in its sematic field.

The Irish word is actually <mór> (/mo:r/, not /mor/);
according to Watkins (2000), it's from a suffixed o-grade
*mo:-ro-, from *meh1- 'big'. It also meant 'great, famous'.

Brian