Re: [tied] Scythian Cognates

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 11920
Date: 2001-12-25

How about *avirpata- < *a-vi:ra-pa:ta:- 'not protected by men, having no male defenders' (stretching the first element but sparing the second ;) )? At any rate, I'm inclined to interpret -pata- as *pa:ta: < *pah2-t-ah2 'protected' because of its recurrent use in Old Iranian onomastic.
 
Piotr
 
 
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
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Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Scythian Cognates
 
... I have no good theory about <oiorpata> to offer, but if something plausible occurs to me, I'll put it forth for discussion.