From: Carl Edlund Anderson
Message: 56070
Date: 2008-03-27
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, liberty@... wrote:
> I'm not an expert in Ossetic so I'm asking not telling. Is the
> first 'a' in 'Alan' short? I thought that it was long. John
> Colarusso derives the Ossetic 'Al�gat�', a Nartic clan name,
> from *a:rya-ka:ta-.
There then follows further discussion of *a:rya-, though I'm interested in what the *-ka:ta-
element might be. Any thoughts?
Does anyone have a reference for the Colarusso source for this derivation?
Cheers,
Carl