[tied] Re: Accepted cognates of Arya?

--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:


> And if you assure me so as a linguist I must of course accept that
> Germanic *ala- "true, real" is not borrowed from or otherwise

related

> to Alanic *ala- < PII *arya- "true, real" (which also is great for
> compounds). Maybe we should ask one of those historians?

Where, except in your mind's eye, have you seen Alanic *ala- 'true,
real'? No Iranian language I know anything about (not even post-
Alanic Ossetic) uses *arya- as a prefix with this meaning. They have
quite different words for 'true, real', most importantly *hant-/*hat-
< *(h1)sont-/*(h1)snt-. I see no reason to divorce prefixal *al-a-
from adjectival *alla- < *al-na- in Germanic.

Piotr