From: tgpedersen
Message: 11752
Date: 2001-12-11
> How about comparing -bista with Ario-vistus? And what is an ario-
> name doing there? Connection with *vis- "power"? (And of course I
> wrote on a piece of paper *d-x-n- Decineus. Hm!)
--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> An interesting observation. "Byrebistas" could perhaps be analysed
as *wih1ro-wistos (*-wid-to-) 'famous among men' with the Thracian
development of the initials. Ariovistus is a similarly formed Celtic
name, in which <ario-> is either related to Indo-Iranian *arya- or
represents an accidentally similar Celtic development (*prh3-jo-
'foremost'?).
>
> Piotr
What are the linguistic reasons why you classify the name as Celtic?
Are there any other examples of Celtic names with *arya-?
Torsten