Supposedly it does mean "little father" and I've read
it from Germanic in popular sources --which generally
tend to claim the Huns are Turkish, and those that
don't tend to claim them as Mongols or some related
Altaic people. They also link them to the Xiung-Nu,
Ephthalites ("White Huns"), etc. Descriptions of
Attila seem to describe someone of E. Turkish, Mongol
or East Asian ancestry.
But as Piotr points out, they seem to have been like
an avalanche that picked anything and everything and
incorporated it into their group.
So it would surprise me if they had Turkic, Mongolic,
Iranian and Germanic elements plus any others they
came in contact with
--- "fournet.arnaud" <
fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick McCallister
>
> I remember seeing a book on the Huns years ago that
> claimed "Hunnic" as a branch of Altaic.
>
> ================
>
> Isn't Attila supposed to mean "little father" ?
>
> And Hun < *Huwin / Humin ?
> Written as : x w n (Sogdien)
> looks like *guman "man"
>
> You know what I think about early location for
> Germanic.
>
> Arnaud
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>
>
>
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