Re: etymology of Persian

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
The Ir. prototype would be something like

> *parc'u-/*pa:rc'wa-,
> matching the Indo-Iranian word for 'rib, side' so
> well (cf. Skt.
> párs'u-, Av. p&r&su- 'rib', Skt. pa:rs'va- 'side,
> flank', Oss. fars
> 'side') that the etymology 'border people' makes
> good sense. If so, they
> would have been "the Ukrainians" of the early IIr.
> world :-).

****GK: "Border people" of what? Sounds like the sort
of etymology Parthians might have tried on these guys
in Augustus' time. Except that the retort would have
been the same(:=))... Somehow I can't imagine Darius
or Xerxes thinking along these lines. Maybe they had
different implications for "rib",("sweet and
sour"(:=)) like today's Ukrainians have for
"Ukraine".****

>
> Piotr
>
>
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