Re: OT: Chance resemblances...
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 4, 2004, 3:40 |
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Quoting Muke Tever <hotblack@...>:
> To balance that, I should mention that the protoform of Magyar j+APM-
> appears
> to have been something like *jom. It could be done, but not likely (heck,
> you even have PIE *yew-os- "right" to throw in too, if you're going for
> that sort of thing).
To simultaneously fulfill my traditional function of going off tangents
and 'stablish some tenuous connection to conlangs, is the origin of the
word "Magyar" known? It occured to me it looks alot like Meghean
_madear_ "giver".
Andreas