Re: [tied] Re: Interpreting some Scythian names

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...>
> wrote:
>
> *****GK: Herodotus and many others applied it to the
> whole complex of
> ethna of which the "Royal Scythians" were but one
> component. The
> majority were not nomads.****
>
> PG:I know. I'm talking of stereotypes here.
>
> *****GK: Well if Slavic evolved from Balto-Slavic
> (or from some even
> more ancient IE complex: BaltoSlavic-Scythian) it
> could very well
> have had elements of this "Scythian" language,
> Iranic borrowings etc.
> notwithstanding.*****
>
> The source from which those loans were taken shows
> characteristic
> _Iranian innovations_, i.e. features that developed
> after the
> separation of Iranian from Indo-Aryan. Such a
> language is Iranian _by
> definition_, since the probability of such a complex
> of traits
> developing idependently outside Iranian is as close
> to zero as
> matters. A language cannot have a Doppelg�nger.

*****GK: But the view espoused above does not deny
Iranian borrowings, far from it. It holds that
"Slavic" evolved from a more ancient tongue the
dialects of which were very close ("Scythian" being
probably a southern branch). As I've mentioned you can
see the Iranic borrowings in the Scythian Foundation
legend itself ("ksaj"). Can you demonstrate that this
is an impossible scenario?*******>

Piotr

>
>

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