From: wtsdv
Message: 33070
Date: 2004-06-04
>I can't answer your question, but I wonder why Abaev gave
> Both Old Persian and Avestan (despite some orthographic
> ambiguity) seem to point to *arya- with a short, unvrddhied
> *a, but Abaev (reportedly) etymologizes Ossetic (Iron)
> <allon> 'a self-designation of the Ossetians (in folklore)'
> as < *a:rya:na- (vs., eg., <¿lan> 'foreigner' < *arya:na-).
> That raises the question: are there any reliable reflexes
> of *a:ry(:an)a- (with long *a:) attested in the Iranian
> languages?