... Briton ... of ... ancient ... had ... Anything is possible, but how many big trees overhanging a bog do you see? BTW There is a novel interpretation in the...
... about his ... the life ... eternity ... etc. why ... ready to ... for this ... embalming ... bog? ... But would people know that bog bodies were preserved...
... *****GK: Snorri's geography of southeast Europe is not overly precise. He seems to think that the Sea of Azov is part of the Don. But that is not the crux...
... a kind ... *****GK: OK let's stop here and take brief stock. The Bastarnae were located primarily in the area of contemporary Moldavia. "Odin" was in...
on 11/30/01 11:03 AM, João Simões Lopes Filho at jodan99@... wrote: 1) Is there any possibily to reconstruct or deduce PIE anthroponyms, at least the...
To take the bull by the horns -- I'd like to suggest an etymology of "Paralatai". The only known source of "Euro-Iranian" <l> is *ry/*ri, so let us suppose...
... *****GK: What is the rule or rules for the transformation of "R" to "L" (or vice-versa) in Iranic languages? I suppose that "Alan" actually means...
Proto-Iranian had no *l, since PIE *l had merged with *r there. In more recent times lateral *l arose here and there in language-specific conditions: for...
... collective ... [And in an immediately following post PG wrote:] Ossetic has regular liquid dissimilation (if there are two /r/'s in the same word, the...
A Greek source records the name "Paropamisus" for the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan. Someone said that it came from the Avestic for "higher than the...
Are the change of -ry- > -l-, and the dissimilation of the first of two /r/'s in the same word common to all of N.E. Iranian or only Sarmatian? The following...
In an "Ossetoid"; dialect I'd predict *pararya- > *parala- (vocalic nuances ignored). Remember, however, that liquids behave capriciously if two or more of...
... *****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...
The etymologies are correct, as far as I can see, and examples could be multiplied. There is no lambdacism in Khotanese or even in (the various dialects of)...
A possible explanation of "pal-" would be a haplological truncation of *pala:la- < *pari-a:rya-. What exactly does Diodorus say? Is it certain that he refers...
... *****GK:Here's the passage from II.43 where Diodorus recounts his version of the Scythian Foundation Legend: "At a later time, as the Scythians recount the...
Thank you for the clarification. The Nap- names probably reflect the Iranian etymon *na:f-a- 'navel', *na:f-ah- 'kinship, family'. There was an Ossetic deity...
Could the "Iron" name of the Ossetians then come from a non- lambdacizing dialect within the Alanic confederation, and "Ælon" from a lambdicizing one? David ...
... I see. If you further add an assumption which is "just possible", the whole theory runs out through your fingers. BTW how do you make combined rivers?...
... which is ... *****GK: Pritsak thought that the "kvisl" referred to the area where the Don and Donetz conjoin (look it up on a map). But the Don-Volga...
... How do complexes give hoots about anything? Or, attempting a translation: I assume that there are two kinds of evidence here: chronicles and archaeology....
... (GK) In the 1rst c. BC there is no room here ... ****GK: Pablum for Torsten: "complex"= political organization. "give a hoot"= colloquial expression for ...
The name Gerrh(u,o)s refers to three things in Herodotus' Scythian excursus: (1) a river; (2) a "spot which goes by the same name"; (3) a member of the most ...
There's a new group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Greek-Mythology-Link/messages This group is owned by Carlos Parada, author of the luminous Greek Mythology...
There's no need to assume that <desna> is a Baltic name. Reflexes of PIE *dek^s-(i)no- 'right (= not left)' occur throughout the family, _including_ Slavic, as...
If the hydronym <gerros> is a loose spelling variant of *kerros (or *kersos, since <-rr-> and <-rs-> commonly vary in Greek), it might be a "Thracoid"; reflex...
