Greetings!
I would like to read more about specific objections to the proposal that
some have made that "Hrvat" might be related to the river name
"Harahvaiti"/"Haraquaiti".
If it were true, it would analogous to the various ethnonyms attributed to
"Danu-". Harahvaiti is an Iranic river name said to be cognate to the Indic
river name Sarasvati, though they are two different rivers. The Sarasvati
was long thought to be mythical, until aerial photography revealed the very
clear traces of a huge (dried up) river exactly where Sarasvati is placed in
the Vedic texts, and the majority of so-called "Indus Valley" sites are
actually along her banks, not those of the Sindhu/Indus river.
Anyway, not all peoples/ethnoi with variants of Danu- names are from the
same branches of the IndoEuropean family, so analagously, IF Hrvat is
derived from Harahvaiti, it need not imply that the Croats are Iranic.
I would like to see this theory of Hrvat < Harahvaiti considered carefully,
and not simply rejected out of hand.
How many different theories are there about the origin of the Hrvat
ethnonym? Can someone summarize them here? Many thanks!
Mark DeFillo/Seghopritus
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