Arabic-L:LING:Comoros another query

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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Date:  07 Jan 2002
From: esg at felix.unife.it
Subject: Comoros another query

Jamal Qureshi wrote:

>  that the country name derives
>  directly from the Arabic "Juzur al-Qamar"

Wehr gives g[u]z[u]r al-q[u]m[u]r separated from the first instance
of the root qmr; does this mean that etymologically it does not derive
from q[a]m[a]r?

je

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