Re: Alanic horseman

But it is an attested name in Mongolic languages
--bastardized as it is it sounds a whole lot better
than "Daddy"

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
>
> 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
> ============
> 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
>
>
>

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