[tied] Re: Oltak

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 20876
Date: 2003-04-08

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

> The Hungarian Jasz word list had a 'dan' = "river" too, I believe.

It has <dan> glossed as "aqua", but it's simply the same word as
Ossetic don 'water' < Iranian *da:nu- 'river', with a semantic shift
characteristic of Ossetic, not an independent piece of evidence. The
language of the Jasz was to all intents and purposes a dialect of Ossetic.

Piotr