Re: Scythian tribal names: Paralatai

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In light of Piotr's etymology, did anyone ever have an opinion
regarding Alexander's question of Targitaus <-> Thraetaona ??

Regards,
Aydan


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Alexander Stolbov" <astolbov@...>
wrote:

>
> According to Herodotus Paralatai is a tribe descending from the

youngest of 3 sons of Targitai.

> According to Avesta Aryan is a tribe descending from the youngest

of 3 sons of Thraetaona.

>
> Could Targitai be linguistically compared to Thraetaona?
>
> Alexander
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Piotr Gasiorowski
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 3:05 AM
> Subject: [tied] Scythian tribal names: Paralatai
>
>
> To take the bull by the horns -- I'd like to suggest an etymology

of "Paralatai". The only known source of "Euro-Iranian" <l> is
*ry/*ri, so let us suppose that the recorded form is not misspelt but
contains a genuine -l- < *-ry-. If we detach the collective <-ta->,
what remains is <parala-> < *pararya- (approximately). I can see two
alternative (but similar) analyses of that:

>
> (1) *pari-a:rya- 'thoroughly Aryan/most respectable' = *parya:rya-
> *pælalæ- > *pæralæ- (note that liquid dissimilation is normal in

Modern Ossetic). Looks like a suitable name for the Royal Scythians.

>
> (2) *para-arya- 'outer/different Arya (?)' = *para:rya- > *pæralæ-

(less attractive semantically, but formally possible).

>
> Piotr