Another Scythian item

From: george knysh
Message: 11922
Date: 2001-12-25

Piotr,
you earlier said that you were tempted to find the
"horse" word in the tribal name TRASPIES (Herodot.) I
think you're right. So a question: would a metathesis
be possible here: TRASPIES for TRI-ASP-ES? Meaning
"Three Horses" or "Third Horse"?

George

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