Talk:ماجور

This paper gives Coptic +  as a possible etymon, although the combined term  is unattested. The phonetics line up perfectly, but this otherwise seems rather weak to me.

However, there’s another attested Coptic word, which may be a poorer phonetic match but points to other potentially promising connections. considers it a descendant of Late Egyptian and earlier, both denoting some sort of vessel. meanwhile labels the connection between the Coptic word and the earlier Egyptian words ‘uncertain’, and considers Egyptian a loanword from Semitic, comparing Ugaritic, Neo-Babylonian Akkadian , and Arabic. Not sure if there could be something there. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 23:14, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * 1. The Ugaritic and Akkadian containers are probably quite dissimilar to the ones in question here. While the Ugaritic is “an ornamental beverage vessel” or a “pot”, The Akkadian is supposedly a “cooling vessel“ from the Aramaic root q-r-r. The Egyptian may however be connected to one or both of these – they can be parallel formations: Semitic seems to tend to use this root for the purpose of denoting something about containers, like in.
 * 2. The connection to Arabic should not be made.  means “to receive or treat as a guest, to entertain”, hence  and  do not mean only “a large bowl”, but “a large bowl one gives to a guest” – an occasional Arabic invention, thus (I have not encountered the vessel name, but the verb one finds in use).
 * 3. and  from  +  seem both not bad, relating to the idea of a kneading trough, or a basin where into grain is scattered for milling (which all the Romanian terms in the translation table in, where you yet have to add the Serbo-Croatian term, mean foremostly), only that one is phonetically problematic and the other unattested. Fay Freak (talk) 00:08, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
 * 3. and  from  +  seem both not bad, relating to the idea of a kneading trough, or a basin where into grain is scattered for milling (which all the Romanian terms in the translation table in, where you yet have to add the Serbo-Croatian term, mean foremostly), only that one is phonetically problematic and the other unattested. Fay Freak (talk) 00:08, 16 September 2019 (UTC)