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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
wrote:
> Marius, when DEX has "Probabil lat. mas, maris.", it is citing a
> Latin word (in this case meaning "male") in the usual dictionary
> manner: Nom., gen. If the word for "sea" was involved, it would
cite
> "Mare, maris."
>
> Dan
You are right, sorry.
a) DEX make reference to 'Latin male' for:
Rom. <<mare-1>> 'big' " Probabil Lat. mas, maris"
b) next DEX make reference to 'Latin sea' for:
Rom. <<mare-2>> 'sea' " Lat. mare, -is"
(For sure the b) is a correct etymology).
see url:
http://dexonline.ro/search.php?cuv=mare&source=
I well know the proposed etymologies for this word in the Romanian
books, so from here my previous feedback:
These are:
1. Lat mas , marem 'male'
2. Lat maris 'sea'
3. in relation with Alb. madh 'big' -> that has a dialectal
variant 'i mall' -> Rosetti talks about this variant in ILR II.
see url:
http://f2.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/4I_yQmpxLVeOlnNMUdzALhb5WiIltj7aglQsQf_Q
fXoVp9js4Gz9KsSjJuXcDp4Mq_Y9dKYncffY5OE07sHk11R7LyNIB7fwQyX_xA/Rosett
i/Rosetti_ILR_II_116_117.jpg
(I'm not aware about this Albanian Dialectal variant -> but I'm not
at all a specialist on these variants).
==> 4. But finally the link with the Irish (->Celtic)
word 'mór' 'big' (see my derivation in a previous posting) is more
than obvious (->my opinion) : PIE *meh1- + the PIE suffix *-ro
By the way, how can we explain the relation between the PIE
roots : *meh1- and *meh1g^-. More exactly, my question is what
is 'the status' of this g^ in the second root ?
Thanks,
Marius