Re: [tied] Scythian tribal names: Paralatai

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 11633
Date: 2001-12-02

A possible explanation of "pal-" would be a haplological truncation of *pala:la- < *pari-a:rya-. What exactly does Diodorus say? Is it certain that he refers to the Royal Scythians?
 
Piotr
 
 
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From: george knysh
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Subject: Re: [tied] Scythian tribal names: Paralatai

*****GK: The reason I asked this is because I wondered if there might be a relationship between the recorded Herodotan name of the Royal Scythians "paralatai" and the later appellative for them we find in Diodorus Siculus. viz., "pali" (allegedly from a King Pal, but possibly (?) a diminished (abbreviated) version of *pararya ==> pal-arya ==>pal-. Or could that Diodoran "pal-i" (pala?) just have developed out of "para" understood as "the foremost" vel sim.? From the end of the 5th c. BC the various "Royal Scythian" groups were becoming increasingly associated with "Sarmatian" (incl."Issedones" [as Pliny called them] and Alanic) populations. Perhaps that's where the r==>l might have
come from?****