Re: "As"

Hey! You stole my question before I could respond! ;p
Scandinavian as- < ans- --right?
If so, how do we explain the -n-?
It's the same root as Anglo-Saxon os "god"?
If Aryan as is "dawn, east", then a root meaning
"shining, etc."
And thus also related to Engish east and Easter?
Would a root such as *Vns- fit?


--- tolgs001 <george_st@...> wrote:

> tgpedersen@... wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh
> <gknysh@> wrote:
> >>
> >>Don't remember if I asked this before. Couln't
> find
> >>anything in my notes. Is there an Iranic meaning
> to
> >>the term "As" (et sim.) which is behind the
> >>designation of modern Ossetians (and Alanic
> forebears)
> >>in other languages?
>
> As well as the Jassic branch (Jász/ok /ya:s/) that
> fled (along with
> the Cumanians) to Hungary in the 13th century,
> fearing the Mongols,
> namely in a region that was inhabited 10-11
> centuries earlier by
> (their ancestors) the Yazyges:
>
> The Jász region, where numerous place names start
> with Jász-
>

http://www.didac.ehu.es/antropo/11/11-18/Papai_archivos/image002.jpg

>
> (The former capital of Moldavia, Ia$i (Jassy), seems
> to have been
> some Jassic foundation.)
>
> Some people assume that As (and Ossetic + Jassic) is
> a short form of
> Aorsi. An Alanic people mentioned by Strabo in
> Geografia, 23, XI, v. 8:
>
> "The next peoples to which one comes between Lake
> Maeotis and the
> Caspian Sea are nomads, the Nabianai and the
> Panxini, and then next
> the tribes of the Siraces and the Aorsi. The Aorsi
> and the Siraces are
> thought to be fugitives from the upper tribes of
> those names and the
> Aorsi are more to the north than the Siraces.
>
> Now Abeacus, king of the Siraces, sent forth twenty
> thousand horsemen
> at the time when Phrarnaces [_II – Anatolian king of
> Pontus and son of
> Mithradates VI Eupator_] held the Bosporus [_63-47
> BCE_]; and
> Spadines, king of the Aorsi, two hundred thousand;
> but the upper Aorsi
> sent a still larger number, for they held dominion
> over more land,
> and, one may almost say, ruled over most of the
> Caspian coast; and
> consequently they could import on camels the Indian
> and Babylonian
> merchandise, receiving it in their turn from the
> Armenians and the
> Medes, and also, owing to their wealth, could wear
> golden ornaments.
>
> Now the Aorsi live along the Tanaïs, but the Siraces
> live along the
> chardeüs [the Kuban] which flows from the Caucasus
> and empties into
> Lake Maeotis."
>
> >Copied from the Indo-Iranian list (maybe you would
> want to join it?)
> >"
> >Re: "As"
>
> [SNIP]
>
> How about Æsir and Asgard? :-)
>
> George
>
>

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