From: george knysh
Message: 11986
Date: 2002-01-03
> The reason why I insist on Iranian in this case is*****GK: I take it then that the problem of the long
> that <-ksa�s> makes the best sense as an Iranian
> element (*-xs^ayah). Some Scythian princes may have
> sported non-Iranian names, of course (conversely,
> there are many examples of Iranian names among
> non-Iranian-speaking peoples), but _hybrid_ names,
> say half Thracian, half Iranian, are more difficult
> to imagine. From the formal point of view,
> *ripa-xs^ayah would perfectly suffice as an
> etymological reconstruction of <lipoksa�s>.