Re: etymology of Persian

Even transparent names become obscure in everyday use.
I had a Polish officemate in grad school who claimed
not to know the origin of the name Poland --although
it sticks out like a tail on a dog. She was from
Kraków and I guess it's not so flat around there


--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2007-10-18 13:48, george knysh wrote:
>
> > Somehow I can't imagine Darius or Xerxes thinking
> along these lines.
>
> They didn't have to if they just inherited an
> ethnonym given to the
> ancestors of the Persians in a peripheral
> prehistoric homeland. If they
> indeed lived close to northern Mesopotamia at the
> time they were
> mentioned by the Assyrians, that would have made
> them "borderside Iranians".
>
> Piotr
>
>

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