mā-2

    mā-2

    English meaning: good, timely

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “gut, to guter Zeit, rechtzeitig”

    Material: With formants -no- aLat. münus “gut”, immünis “terrible”, adverbial müne, münī “early, matutinal”; here also münēs f. “die abgeschiedenen Seelen”, later “ underworld, death”; perhaps Phryg. μήν “abgeschiedene soul”, μανία “καλή”; or belongs Lat. münēs to Gk. μῆνις, Dor. μᾶνις “Groll”? compare S. 727. With t-formant: Lat. Mütūta “die goddess the Frũhe, the Morgenhelle, but also the ripeness”, mütūtīnus “morgendlich”, mütūrus “rechtzeitig; zeitig = reif” (based on auf *mü-tu- , perhaps “good, gelegene time”), Osc. Maatúís (*Mütīs = “dī Münēs”); reduced grade perhaps Celt. *mů-ti- in O.Ir. maith, Welsh mad, Corn. mas, M.Bret. mat, Bret. mad “gut” and Gaul. PN Matidonnus, Teuto-matos; also O.Ir. maithid “verzeiht”.

    References: WP. II 220 f., WH. II 27 f., 53 f.