From: ualarauans
Message: 51207
Date: 2008-01-11
>These forms are corrupted Gothic. Does anyone have ideas how they
> Mord is first attested in latin as <mord-ens>
> along side with Merens = Merya people
> www.thelatinlibrary.com/iordanes1.html#XIII
> > Most western Uralic people have an indo-european name :Udmurt < Ir. *ant(a)-mart(a) "frontier dweller".
> >
> > lud : from liud "Leute"
> > Mordv : from mord "mortal"
> > ud -murt- : same as above