From: george knysh
Message: 50321
Date: 2007-10-17
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh****GK:Thanks for this. I've been gathering points
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
> >
> > Don't remember if I asked this before. Couln't
> find
> > anything in my notes. Is there an Iranic meaning
> to
> > the term "As" (et sim.) which is behind the
> > designation of modern Ossetians (and Alanic
> forebears)
> > in other languages?
>
> Copied from the Indo-Iranian list (maybe you would
> want to join it?)
> "
> Re: "As"
>
> --- In indo_iranian@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > In the group cybalist. George Knysh asked the
> following:
> > "Don't remember if I asked this before. Couln't
> find
> > anything in my notes. Is there an Iranic meaning
> to
> > the term "As" (et sim.) which is behind the
> designation
> > of modern Ossetians (and Alanic forebears)in other
> > languages?"
> >
> > There was no reply yet. Can anybody help with an
> Iranian
> > etymology here?
>
> I can't really help, but I have wondered about the
> same
> question myself for a long time.
>
> 'Asy' in Iron, 'Asi' or 'Assi' in Digoron, is the
> Ossetic
> designation for Balkaria, and is supposed to go back
> to a
> time when the region was inhabited by the As. The
> Ossetes
> nowadays, however, don't seem to recognize it as
> their own
> former name.
>
> I've wondered if there isn't some connection to the
> Iron
> 'as' and Digoron 'asæ', for which Abaev gives
> 'velic^ina',
> 'rost', 'vozrast'. Doesn't the root of Germanic
> 'teuta-'
> have a similar meaning?
>
> David [Russel Watson]
> "
>
>
> Torsten