Re: [tied] Auras

Aigius wrote:

> Can it be that diminutive suffix is in word Alutas? Then Alius, Alys,
> Alus > Alutis > Alutas. Compare with K�stas > K�stutis (duke of GDL),
> Kailas > Kailutis, Jaunius > Jaunutis, ...

I don't know how to make a diminutive from Atlas to Alutas. Atlas seems
to me just a methathetic form with syncope of "u"
Alutas > Al(u)tas > Altas > Atlas ; Rmearcable is the fact the Rom.
presents too the cluster "lt" in the actually name "Olt" from an older
*Alt- which fits very well the known Alutas.

>
> To what Albanian word name Ordes is related?

it shows just some known phonetic changes in Albanian as a > o, g^> d,
thus appears possible that Arg^es > *Ordes.

Alex




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