Re: Alanic horseman

From: george knysh
Message: 52419
Date: 2008-02-07

--- ualarauans <ualarauans@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Cristian Mocanu"
> <cristixav@...>
> wrote:
we have no way of knowing if the Huns
> themselves
> actually called
> > him that.
> > Cristian
>
> Of course they did. Most influential of them were
> East Germanic or
> at least could speak East Germanic.

****GK: These "barbarians" were multi-lingual. But
Hunnish was the Huns' first language, and according to
Priscus,the first language of Attila's court. The most
likely hypothesis, if Pritsak's reconstruction of
"Attila" as a genuine Hunnish name is put aside
(though he was certainly a master turkologist), is
that the Hunnish word was so close (whatever it
meant)in pronunciation that the Attilanic Germanics
could easily twist it into their idiom's "Attila".
Note that Pritsak mentions two other "Gothicized"
Hunnish names: Balamir and Laudaric.****



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