From: Brian M. Scott Message: 48786 Date: 2007-05-30
At 7:36:12 PM on Tuesday, May 29, 2007, tgpedersen wrote:
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>> Ario- (< *Hario- according to Pokorny p. 67) is most
>> likely from Germanic *harjaz 'army'.
> 'Most likely' because?
For what it's worth, Ranko Matasovic takes the name to be
wholly Celtic and derives its first element from PCelt.
*aryo- 'free man' (OIr <aire> 'free man; noble, chief'),
from PIE *h2eryo- (Skt. <aryá> 'kind, favorable'.