Re: Alanic horseman

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 52423
Date: 2008-02-07

--- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

> It is quite probable that <Attila> is a popular
> European transformation of
> the originally Mongolian (or whatever) name that has
> nothing to do with its
> original meaning.
>
> Patrick
>
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Att-i-la is written with acute accent on -i-.
That's puzzling to me.
It's quite strange that a uralo-altaic language
could place accent on the second syllable.
To me, it looks like an argument against
a uralic or altaic origin.
But I am not competent with Old Turcic.

Arnaud