Re: [tied] Dirmar

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From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Dirmar


******GK: So it looks like I was pretty close to grasping
the possible meaning [of "Aukhatai"] even though my
etymologizing was defective.*****

I accepted your conjecture that the name meant something
like "farmers", and tried to find a matching Indo-Iranian
root. Alas, the task is fairly easy -- there are so many
roots to chose from -- and so I cannot guarantee a really
solid etymology.

BTW, the names of Sunilda's brothers, Sarus and Ammius, are
supposed to reflect Gothic sarwa- and hama-, both meaning
'weapons, arms'. However, at least Sarus might be Iranian
_with the same meaning_ (Iranian *saru- 'arrow, pointed
weapon', cf. Indo-Aryan s'aru-). I wonder whether a case
could be made for <sarwa-> being an Iranian loan in Gothic
(there are more of them in Germanic).

Piotr