türk

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> --- 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.

>

True, I should have mentioned that. I think I felt it was relevant
since Chuvash had a similar word, although it had Grimm-shifted it
itself; there is this old dispute over how far west the Turkic tribes
reached when.

Which reminds me: what is the etymology of 'türk'?

Torsten