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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Edlund Anderson" <cea@...> wrote:

>
> Are there no further thoughts from anyone on the etymology of
> Ossetic "Nart", either regarding the function of Pokorny's
> *-thra suffix or any alternative reconstructions?

I am presently in the process of digitalizing the article on
'Nartæ' from V. I. Abaev's 'Istoriko Etimologicheskij Slovar'
Osetinskogo Yazyga'. If you can wait a day or two for me to
finish cleaning it up, I will upload it to the files section.

David