From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 56909
Date: 2008-04-06
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Patrick Ryan" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:06 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya
> At 1:26:54 PM on Sunday, April 6, 2008, Patrick Ryan wrote:
>
> > From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
>
> >> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> >> <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >>> You wrote "Jasz". That is a region of Hungary.
>
> >> Why would I say 'Hungarian' when I am not Hungarian? I've
> >> never been a citizen of Hungary or even visited the
> >> country, and neither has any ancestor of mine in several
> >> generations been a citizen of Hungary, and I am not a
> >> Magyar either.
>
> [...]
>
> > Then why did you write "Jasz"?
>
> Presumably because it's precisely what he meant. As I
> understand it, the Jász were originally Ossetic.
>
> Brian
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It would be interesting if David verified that.
Patrick
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