The Scottish Celtic review

;dill} Aiidlygis of Gaelic ComiHiiiml Wovds. 2.">coimsam for co-rnvmagfinvi, 1st. per. pi. nf tlie rcMluplicated f-h\i. nfcuviuhig.To the same root alsi> belong Skr. ma/f-rts (power, .spleudour)Gr. ixrixo'! iind /nijx'ip (means, expedient, remedy), //.tixui"'/ (device,design); Goth. ma{j (I am able, possum), mrthts (power);Ger. ini'xjen and macJd; A. S. viai/an and meaJit, Eng. 7H«y andmiijlit ; Oil. -Slav. 7H«f7rt (possum), mostl (power). Cf. Curt. Gr.Etyni., p. olio.12. The root mag, which occurs in the following Celtic words,is connected with the Indo-Europ. root magh noticed above:0. Gael. do-for-mag-(ir (augetur), do-for-maig (auget),tonnag, tormach (auctio) = do-for-mag, mo (more) of whichvi6o, mda, md, mdo are ditierent forms, for *magias (or*ma-ias) corresponding to Lat. major for *magios, Gr. fxel^wv for*fi€yiov, Skr. makiydns, Goth, maiza, 0. Gael, super, mdam, melt= *manti ; Corn, moghya = *magiafi, moycha. With the Gael,comp. md, mdo, the W. com p. mwy and the Corn. comp. vioycorrespond. To the same root belong also the O. Gael, positivesmdr, mdr, W. mawr. Corn, maur, which must have early lost theguttural. Cf. Curt. Gr. Etym., pp. 329, 330, and Stokes' Ir. Gl.,p. 129.To the same root with the above belong also Gr. /xe'ya? (great)with the comp. fxel^nov (noticed above) and superl. fiiyia-ro^,ixeya\vvw (magnify), fiiyedo^ (greatness) ; Lat. magnus (great)with the comp. mdjor (noticed above) and superl. maximiis,magis (in a higher degree), magister (master), &c.; Goth, mik-il-s(great), mlkUjan (to magnify), Goth. comp. mai.