From: Aigius
Message: 59456
Date: 2008-07-03
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
> *****GK: The reason I asked this is because I wondered
> if there might be a relationship between the recorded
> Herodotan name of the Royal Scythians "paralatai" and
> the later appellative for them we find in Diodorus
> Siculus. viz., "pali" (allegedly from a King Pal, but
> possibly (?) a diminished (abbreviated) version of
> *pararya ==> pal-arya ==>pal-. Or could that Diodoran
> "pal-i" (pala?) just have developed out of "para"
> understood as "the foremost" vel sim.? From the end of
> the 5th c. BC the various "Royal Scythian" groups were
> becoming increasingly associated with "Sarmatian"
> (incl."Issedones" [as Pliny called them] and Alanic)
> populations. Perhaps that's where the r==>l might have
> come from?****
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