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    Posted: 10-Aug-2008 at 15:34
 
This is an interesting Persian article about the letter M: http://www.chn.ir/interactivity/show/?section=1&id=28279 It says in several languages the word for "Mount" starts with the letter "M" such as Old English Munt, Latin Mons, Hawaiian Mauna, ... I think it can be said about the letters V/W (English Valley, Arabic Wadi, ...), however the Persian article says "W" was used for "Wave", it is the reason the Phoenician "W" was changed to "S".
 
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Lot's of letters are pictograms originally, but I can't say for this case. Among the runes, the  M stands for man, though that doesn't have any visual reasons as far as I know (and there are no Germanic word for mountain starting with an m). 
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You are wrong about Germanic, similar to the word "Mount", there are the English word "Mound" and German "Menge" (heap) which have Germanic origins. http://ehl.santafe.edu/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/ie/germet&text_number=+++530&root=config
 
The Persian word for "Mound" is "Mahur", similar to Swedish "Mur".


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Well, I didn't really count a mound as a mountain, but I'll give you that. Mur means wall, nothing else.  
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But it says "Mur" also means "Mound": http://online-old.ectaco.com/online/diction.php3?lang=21&q=1&refid=316&rfr_id=1&rqt_id=2&pagelang=23&word=mur&direction=2
 
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Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri

But it says "Mur" also means "Mound": http://online-old.ectaco.com/online/diction.php3?lang=21&q=1&refid=316&rfr_id=1&rqt_id=2&pagelang=23&word=mur&direction=2
 

Well, it's simply wrong. Swedish mur never had that meaning.
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