An interesting Spanish-language item about the Alans
in Wikipedia reconstructs their Iranic name as
*arya-nah I've forgotten what this -nah is. A
specific nominative plural? Or something else? Since
the usual plural (cf. Piotr's analysis of Herodotus'
"Paralatae") would have been a -ta (?) .
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