Re: Alanic horseman

Are you more comfortable with Étzel?

Patrick

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>
> --- 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
> >
> ===============
>
> 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
>
>