[tied] Re: Pliny's "Guthalvs"

--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
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> Subject: [tied] Re: Pliny's "Guthalvs"
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> > Would you read Getae, as Ge - tae or Get - ae ?.
>
> Get-a-, definitely, though it's hard to risk an etymology for an

ethnonym in a practically unknown language. _Very_ tentatively, one
might perhaps suggest a connection with *gWet- 'speak' (as in "Quoth
the raven, Nevermore.").

>
> > What this seems to imply is that today's Jats, knew themselves as

Jit, Jet, Get,

> Jateh, Git, Gitta, Jitta, Jut, Djat, and so on, and different

people, they ran into

> would have known them and describes addressed them differently.
>
> But here <g>, <j> and <dj> represent the same sound.
>
> Piotr

Ravi> Thanks for your patience.

The Jat Indian writers

see

in Get-a, Get- ae, the J sound.


and in Git, Gut, the G sound.

Gut-ia, Gut- asya,( both meaning of the" Gut") as G or J.

To add to the fun, a people called the Gut-i, also appear in
Analatolia, some 2200 BC.

Ravi