Fw: [tied] Re: "As"

> > No Tokharians or whatever IE involved in YueZhi
> > history.
>
> ****GK: Which (if true,and despite your investigations
> this seems far from proven) merely means that
> historians worth their salt should rely on the
> information provided by the Chinese Chronicles
> independently of the meaning of "Yuezhi", and accept
> Central Asian and Greek "hearsay" with respect to
> ethnic labels(recorded by Strabo, Justin et al.) as
> more reliable than Chinese "hearsay" (:=))).
> Somebody needs a refresher course in a great many
> 101's. Over and out.****

If the 'Ashina' connection is relevant, the whole *ans- (sorry,
George!) affair might identify not a single people with a single
language, but a clan which ruled various peoples with various
languages at various times.


Torsten