Re: Latin /a/ after labials, IE *mori

>>>Irish word for sea, <muir>, has the form <mara> in the genitive
>>>singular and nominative plural, and the Cornish word <mo:r> has
>>>the compositional form <mari-> (according to Stuart Mann's IE
>>>dictionary).
>>
>>Mori in Marathi means a place for washing generally near a body
>>of water such as a well.
>>
>>M. Kelkar
>
>Isn't linguistics fun? The problem is, most of people on Cybalist
>do not know any Indic language later than Sanskrit; there are
>so many other PIE languages to learn. But a lot a material in
>the younger Indic languages might be IE, but undocumented in S
>anskrit.

BTW, in Romanian, moare (singular, feminine) "salty water, brine"
(also used for vinegar solutions) < (probable from) Lat. muria
"brine"; whereas mare (sg., fem) "sea".

George