Re: Scythian tribal names

From: Carl Edlund Anderson
Message: 56070
Date: 2008-03-27

Just picking this out of an _old_ thread ....

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, liberty@... wrote:
> I'm not an expert in Ossetic so I'm asking not telling. Is the
> first 'a' in 'Alan' short? I thought that it was long. John
> Colarusso derives the Ossetic 'Al�gat�', a Nartic clan name,
> from *a:rya-ka:ta-.

There then follows further discussion of *a:rya-, though I'm interested in what the *-ka:ta-
element might be. Any thoughts?

Does anyone have a reference for the Colarusso source for this derivation?

Cheers,
Carl