I once read somewhere that the Turkish words for rulers
'qaghan' and 'qatun' were from this same *sva- by way
of Iranian *xva-. Does anybody know if this is true?
David
--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:
> Pavel has already explained that. An Old Indo-Aryan cognate
> is <sva-tavas-> 'powerful' (lit. 'self-strong').
>
> Piotr