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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson" <liberty@>
wrote:
>
> [...]
> It doesn't seem likely that the Ossetes,
> who still remember the Mongols as former enemies, would have
> adopted a Mongolian word for the 'sun' in such a context, and
> solely, as it would appear to be, in such a context.
But some Narty names are in fact Mongolian. Or so Abaev says. And,
don't the Ossetes remember the Mongols as former enemies because
they read history books? Or is it an oral tradition?
I remember reading somewhere that in the Ossetic folklore there are
reminiscences of the Gotho-Alanic contacts. Could anybody clarify
this? In Abaev's dictionary I find gûton / goton meaning 'plough'
which Abaev explains as a "pan-Caucasic word of an unknown origin"
and that "*kut could be a tribal name pointing towards the origin of
this kind of instrument". He hypothesizes: *kut- < *skut-
"Scythian". Isn't < Gutane "of the Goths" more plausible? Cf.
PSlav. *plugU < PGrm. *plôga-.