Re: Arrows (was: On the ordering of some PIE rules)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> ****GK: Some prefer "swords" to "arrows". In any case,
> "archer" for Sarmatian sounds strange since Scythian
> supposedly meant the same thing.

That would only seem to me to provide a precedent for
the semantics of Piotr's suggestion. The Sarmatians
did originate as a type of Scythian, so surely started
out as archers before they developed their technique
using lances.

> How is "spear" in Old Iranian?

*rs^ti- is reconstructed for Proto-Iranian. Compare
Sk. RSTi-, Av. ars^ti-, Digoron arcæ.

David