Re: Asian Migration to Scandinavia

At 11:43:35 AM on Tuesday, October 21, 2008, mkelkar2003
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti"
> <frabrig@...> wrote:

[...]

>> The form a:thra- instead of the expected athar- in the
>> Y.Av. term may be due to influence of Avestan a:tar (=
>> a:thr) 'fire', yet the two words don't seem to be
>> cognate.

> Why not MacDonnell has no problem connecting them. See p.
> 141

> http://tinyurl.com/5aepwn

MacDonnell's opinion is worth very little: that book was
written in 1897.