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4.7.4.1 m-k Convex, great, quantity, power; convexe, grand, beaucoup, puissance

Sumer.makkagreatness
Berb.: Hoggarmakkorengreat
guanchemakoranthe gods
Tokh.makmany
Ital.maccaabundance
Span.manchagreat quantity
Germ.manchermanyð4.7.9.
Franç.(a.litt.)machehaystack
Ukr.šmekovkaTufted Duck, 48
Anc.GreekmakesíkranosHoopoe, 263
Anc.Greekmakestèrelongated
Anc.GreekMakednósMakedonia: high land
Anc.Greekmèchanèmachine, engine, large building
Ital.mácchinatall man
Franç.machineoriginally: a large contraption
Franç.: Saillon (VS)matyan(subs. masc.) enormous thing
Alb.mathlarge
Span.machomale: the taller sex; Ital. maschioð4.7.5.
Anc.Greekmakrolarge
Germ.machtmight
Germ.machento make
Engl.maketo do, produce: to have the power to do
Lettishmàkaknowledge
Tokh.Bmákamany
Drav.mikkiligreat
Tamilmikkagreat
Germ.(o.liter.)mikilagreat; Goth. mikil id.; OE micel, ME michel id.
Phoen.Mikala god identified with Herakles, Hercule
Ugarit.Mikaila proper name in the Ebla tablets, 2300 B.C.,
Russian Mikhail, Fr. Michel. "In the Ebla tablets studied thus far, the majority of the words appear to be Sumerian" (NationalGeographic, December 1978: 749). Thus Mikail may be Indo-European and not Semitic, this being supported by today's chorology of the name (originally Slavic). Parity Michael - mikila by Lah. 1963, p. 209, originally: the tall one
Anc.GreekAmykosgiant who robbed visitors
Mod.Greekmikoslength
Hitt.mekkimany; mekis great
Etr.mexmany
Span.muchomany
Engl.muchgreat in quantity, measure
Sbc.moçpower, influence etc.
Czechmocto be able
Russianmoznopossible

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