Re: [tied] Scythian tribal names

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 11461
Date: 2001-11-23

The AE ligature (for an open front vowel).

Piotr


----- Original Message -----
From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Scythian tribal names


> ******GK: Thank you for the info Piotr. What does the
> symbol which looks like a cyrillic "zh" stand for?****
>
> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> > I'd begin with *<dæ ban xWarz>, which is attested
> > (though imperfectly recorded) Alanic for "may you
> > have a nice day" (modern Digor <dæ bon xWarz>, Iron
> > <dæ 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- (*ælan- < *arya:n-; had it
> > survived, it would be *ælon today), the plural of
> > which was (I suppose) *ælantæ < *arya:ni-ta:.
> >
> > Piotr
> >
> >
> >
>
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