Re: Fw: [tied] Re: "As"

--- Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

> But it's an exonym, compare this with the Cherokee.
> There is no -o- in the Cherokee language. Or with
> the
> Germans --who don't have the /dj-/ sounds --that
> obviously makes them non-Teutonic, right?
> I have no clue whether YueZhi means anything in
> Chinese, but it could be a calque on their own name
> for themselves or it could have passed through other
> languages before the Chinese picked it up.

****GK: Cf. the material at
http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/hhshu/hou_han_shu.html#sec13,
esp. the popup at footnote 1.

In any case, what's important here is not so much what
the Chinese meant by "Yuezhi" as the archaeological
evidence, and the evidence of Western classical
sources such as Strabo and Trogus/Justinus.****



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