Medjugorje?

[Mike Salovesh]

Anne:

I know very little about Slavic languages in general, but on reading that
"Medjugorje" means "between the hills" I immediately turned to a deeper
source for analyzing the word as medju plus gorje.  It looks like it was
produced by the same process that produced Mesopotamia, "between rivers".

Does Slavic "medju" point back to the same IE root as Latin/Romance
"meso"/"medio"?

-- mike salovesh   <m-salovesh-9 at alumni.uchicago.edu>   PEACE !!!

"ANNE V. GILBERT" wrote:
>
> Joseph:
>
> > A Catholic friend forwarded me the message of September 25th from
> Medjugorje.
> >
> > Apparently, the name of the town means "between the hills."
> >
> > I had conjectured that the -jugo- part might mean "south," Jugoslavia (or
> Yugoslavia) is loosely
> > "the land of the Southern Slavs," but then there isn't much left over for
> "between the hills."
>
> Joseph:  YOur first conjecture was right.  There isn't anything in the word
> that would suggest "Yugo"(which is "south" in Slavic languages), but
> "medju"or its cognates means between in Slavic language.
> Anne G