From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 52425
Date: 2008-02-07
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From: Patrick Ryan
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:06 AM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re: Alanic horseman
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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Whatever the real origin,
it has a double -tt- and an accent on the -i- ?
It tells us something.
Do we know if the -i- in attila was long or short ?
If it's long, it might explain why a Greek speaker would
write att-i:-la with accent on -i-.
Otherwise, it's strange.
It could be A'-ttila.
Arnaud