Re: Etymology of Osettic "Nart"? (the suffix?)

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From: Patrick Ryan
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Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 4:22 AM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re: Etymology of Osettic "Nart"?
(the suffix?)


Carl, the word is listed in Pokorny as *ner-(t-).

*ner- means 'strong (vital) man'

*ner-to- means 'strength (vitality)'

I think there is a good possibility that the word was originally *no-ró,
'strong will'.

So, 'determined'.

Patrick

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Chinese has ren2 "human being, person"
which can be from *nar-in

This root is just "human being".

The H2 in h2-ner most probably is ?a-
which may refer to a male
(CF. Berber a- masculine article)
H2- here is most probably not part of the root.

Arnaud

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