I just know of two possible Hunnic words for the horse, but not of
words for its rider. Both are based on the linguistic analysis of
Hunnic onomastic material proposed by O. Pritsak in _Harvard Ukrainian
Studies_ 6 (1982) at
http://www.huri.harvard.edu/pdf/hus_volumes/vVI_n4_dec1982.pdf
Best,
Francesco
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The paper is very informative
especially as a compilation of forms.
but,
I have some trouble buying
a certain number of explanations.
Attila in particular
out of *es- *tïl "great ocean"
*tïl does not seem to exist at all.
Starostin has da:l for ocean
And mongolian is dal°i
It should be
*es-da:l- in Turcic
or
*ix-dal°i in Mongolian
Phonetically, it's much worse than
att-ila "little father"
with vowels in the right place.
and consonants as expected.
Arnaud