I seem to remember reading that the term was also used
by the Tokharians --but it may have borrowed from
Iranian. I think I read it in the context of arya/orya
meaning "slave" in some Uralic language --the idea
being they got it from Tokharian, which according to
what I read is the IE language most affected by
interaction with Uralic. I don't vouch for what I
read, however
--- Francesco Brighenti <
frabrig@...> wrote:
>
. . .
>
> If you want, Patrick, you can ask Michael Witzel,
> who moderates
> another linguistic discussion forum you're a regular
> contributor of -
> - the MTLR List. He will tell you that, while *aryo-
> could have well
> been a PIE adjective, there is no evidence that it
> was used as an
> ethnic self-designation outside the Indo-Iranian
> branch.
>
. . .
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