Re: [tied] Scythian tribal names

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

> This is a long-promised attempt to make sense of
> "Scythian" ethnonyms, beginning with those whose
> Hellenised version ends in <-tai>. They seem to
> contain *-ta:, the Northeast Iranian collective
> suffix, eventually generalised as a plural marker in
> Sogdian, Yaghnobi and Ossetic.

****GK: Is there also an Iranian plural indicator
which simply consists of a "t" without the "a"?****



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