Re: [tied] The "n" in ALAN

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: george knysh
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 6:07 PM
> Subject: [tied] The "n" in ALAN
>
>
> > The term "Alan" is of course a variant of "Aryan",
> and the Ossetic version seems to be "Iron". What is
> the role played by the letter "n" here? I.e. if we
> have "Arya" which conveys the basic meaning of the
> concept (and would be "liquefied" as "Ala"), what
> does the "n" add?
>
>
> (Piotr) Nothing much. The _phoneme_ /n/ here is part

of a

> derivational suffix /etc/

******GK: The "n" may be nothing much, but the
explanation was most helpful. Thanks.*******

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