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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Przemys�aw Ziobrowski <pmva@...> wrote:
> Carl Edlund Anderson ta nugatu-r:
> > Argh! I was away for some time and fear I missed it! I checked the Files
> > section, but perhaps you've already deleted it. Any chance you (or
> > someone) could upload it again (or, failing that, just email it to me)?
>
> Done -- "Abaev-IESOJ-ss.158-160.pdf" (1.1 MB)
> <http://tinyurl.com/6369yn>
Many thanks to you, and also to David Russell Watson who also sent me the files.
Having read the English translation at least, it seems to me that Abaev raises an important
point, namely that Iran. *nar- > Ossetic > nael-, making it unlikely that the same root
also produced a form with a long vowel like Nartae < *пa:r-. Abaev's suggestion that
Nartæ derives from Mongolian nara "sun" (with -tae as a pluralizing suffix with a genitival
sense -- the [in]famous Indo-Iranian -ta collective suffix?) is interesting, though it's not
clear to me whether the vowel in nara is, or was originally, a long /a:/ of the sort Abaev
says must stand behind the form Nartae.
Still, at the very least, this suggestion seems to at least avoid some of the problems
inherent in Pokorny's *nar-thra- etymology. :)
Cheers,
Carl