Talk:Makednos

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[edit] Etymology

According to the online version of Pokorny's etymological dictionary [1], Gr. māk- is not cognate with Latin maximus. There are two distinct roots:

• PIE *māk'- ('long', 'thin'): the root of Gr. māk- in Mākedonia, makro-, Attic mēkos; cognate with Lat. macer ('thin') (whence Engl. emacerated), with Engl. meagre, as well as some other cognates in Hittite and Avestan
• PIE *meg'a- ('big'): the root of Gr. megas, Lat. magnus, Engl. much and other reflexes in most other branches of IE.

Incidentally, even if mak- and maximus had the same root, the current wording of the article, calling the one a "Latinised derivative" of the other, would be wrong; they'd be parallel inherited congnates, not the one a loan of the other. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:10, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Audio

i hope i didn't break any rules by entering the pronunciation of the word in Greek. tell me. -CuteHappyBrute (talk) 03:04, 13 May 2008 (UTC)