--- George Hinge <
litgh@...> wrote:
> The short vowel of Don / Tanais is problematic
> whether you point to
> Thracian or to Scythian as the source of the
> proprium. You would have
> to accept either a peculiar variant of the stem or a
> special Thracian
> or Scythian vowel shortening (ad hoc).
****GK: It is only problematic if you insist on
looking for an Iranic source. Then you have to posit
unknown and unattested "Scythian" dialects which
already reflect a transition not occurring in Ossetic
(developing from late steppe Alanic) until after the
Mongolian invasion. There is no need to speculate
about the short "a" in the Thracian riverword. For the
evidence. cf. S. Stryzhak et al., "Hidronimija
Ukrajiny v jiji mizhmovnykh i mizhdialektnykh
zvyazkakh", Kyiv: Naukova Dumka 1981, pp. 13-14,
27-30, with references to Lehr-Splawinski, Trubachov,
Mashtakov, and others.******
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