Re: Indo-Aryans outside of India

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:28:50 -0800 (PST), Rick McCallister
<gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>Pardon my ignorance of Russian and many other things.
>Here Scythian *axaina- is translated as "cherniy,
>temniy (black, dark)"
>So is Greek axeinos "unfriendly" a false etymology?
>

The technical term is "folk etymology" (itself a calque on
German Volketymologie). Greek "Pontos Euxeinos" is, of
course, a euphemism.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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