Some non-Avestan Iranian tribes certainly
did (the Alani = *a:ryana-), and the very name "Iran" refers to Middle
Persian e:ran s^ahr 'kingdom of the Aryans'; but I do not know of any
non-Indo-Iranians referring to themselves as <arya-> -- except of course
for the recent misuse of the term in Europe, which started with F. Schlegel's
guess(erroneous, as we know now), that German Ehre had something to do with
<arya->, and his much bolder (and completely unfounded) theory that it
was what the IEs called themselves.
Piotr
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Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:56 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Accepted cognates of Arya?
Do or did any tribes or groups apart from
"Iranians" or " Indo" of
the avestan or rig vedic variety use
arya as a term to describe
themselves, ?