Re: Interpreting some Scythian names

stlatos schrieb:

>
> If I reject such naive guessing, does it make me a historical amateur?
>> Piotr
>
> You made a guess with no evidence at all (not even the
> unknown-to-you but possible ev. Herodotus could have had), saying
> -aspo- could be 'horse' (assuming it was the name of a real group
> named for a real characteristic instead of that of fictional one-eyed
> people named for an inhuman ch. (like s.ad.aksó:)). You have no ev.
> that H. made any guess at all (I think he heard rightly that it meant
> 'one-eyed').
>
>

Speaking about simple guesses, I remember about an old discussion where
Piotr sustained that "esb-" in the Thracian name "Esbenus" should mean
"horse". A such simple guess has been at that time considered to be an
example about the satem aspect of Thracian.


Alex