From: Rick McCallister
Message: 51208
Date: 2008-01-12
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"____________________________________________________________________________________
> <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:
> >
> > Mord is first attested in latin as <mord-ens>
> > along side with Merens = Merya people
> > www.thelatinlibrary.com/iordanes1.html#XIII
>
> These forms are corrupted Gothic. Does anyone have
> ideas how they
> looked in Wulfilan?
>
> > > Most western Uralic people have an indo-european
> name :
> > >
> > > lud : from liud "Leute"
> > > Mordv : from mord "mortal"
> > > ud -murt- : same as above
>
> Udmurt < Ir. *ant(a)-mart(a) "frontier dweller".
> [http://files.udmurt.info/udmurtv0_2.pdf%5d
>
> ?
>
> Ualarauans
>
>