Re: [tied] Dareios = Persian ...?

On 04-10-14 17:13, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> To my view, Persian <dara> is derived from o-grade form *dhor-o- of
> PIE *dher-'to hold firmly, support': bajrak•dar 'flagholder',
> diz•dar castle commander', sir•dar (sir 'head') 'cheaf, commander',
> tahsil•dar 'tax collector', etc.

That's correct, Iranian *da:ra- (> Persian da:r) is from *dHor-o-.

> Cf. also *darHago:ba:zu 'having
> long arm' in Avestan.

There's no connection. Iranian *darga-ba:3'u- (= Skt. di:rgHa-ba:hu-) is
an exocentric (bahuvrihi) compound; the literal meaning is simply
'long-arm', and the first part, from PIE *dl.hgHo- 'long', is unrelated
to *dHer-.

Piotr