non-IE/Germanic/m

Rick Mc Callister rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu
Fri Mar 12 18:20:09 UTC 1999


>But that leaves the *mora word. Is this the same as Bavarian Mure, and
>is it the root of moraine?

I wonder if they're not possibly loanwords from Romance, like Mauer. Is
there a French-Provençal or Swiss French dialect word that Mora"ne, moraine
could have been borrowed from?



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