From: george knysh
Message: 11454
Date: 2001-11-23
> I'd begin with *<d� ban xWarz>, which is attested__________________________________________________
> (though imperfectly recorded) Alanic for "may you
> have a nice day" (modern Digor <d� bon xWarz>, Iron
> <d� bon xorz>). Then I'd switch to body language,
> for I can speak grammatically correct Ossetic (let
> alone Old Ossetic) no better than you can. I only
> know a thing or two _about_ Ossetic and I also know
> where to look for more information. I have no idea
> what the Alanic words for "Zoroaster" and
> "Zoroastrian" may have been. But the following point
> is worth making: the Old Ossetic speakers' term for
> themselves was not Iron -- a more recent formation
> from Ir 'Ossetia', which is foreign-influenced --
> but apparently Alan- (*�lan- < *arya:n-; had it
> survived, it would be *�lon today), the plural of
> which was (I suppose) *�lant� < *arya:ni-ta:.
>
> Piotr
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