Re: "As"

Thank you very much for the info. It simplifies a lot
of things for me!
George
--- Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:

>
> > Ushah ['Dawn'] was the Avestan Goddess of the
> Morning. I was
> > wondering if this "Osh" in the Sogdian name could
> be related to the
> > Alan ethnonym, which would then mean something
> like "(those) of
> > the east"...
>
> I wouldn't think so. The Alans' self-given ethnonym
> (one of two
> known ones) was A:s (with long /a/). I don't readily
> see how Sogdian
> <'ws^-> (Romanicized as "Osh") 'dawn' could have
> turned its /'w/
> phonemic segment into /a:/ in another Iranian
> language. You may have
> been led astray here by the existence of an ethnonym
> Os for the
> Ossetes of the Caucasus, which is, however, peculiar
> to Georgian
> only (where it alternates with the form Ovs). That's
> not the
> original tribal self-designation of the Alans./etc.

cut for economy/


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