Re: USAGE: Translation of Russian _inorodtsy_
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 23, 2004, 13:31 |
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At 12:34 22.1.2004, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Well, yes. Strictly speaking, only the first bit or Iran is cognate to
>'arya-',
>the second bit meaning something like "land".
_Iran_ derives from the genitive plural of _aarya-_,
as does the modern Persian plural generally.
This is at least the standard explanation, notwithstanding
the existence of an Old Persian province which the Greeks
called Ariana.
/BP 8^)
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B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X)
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