Quoting Nikhil Sinha <nsinha_in@...>:
> It seems the original Indo-Europeans called themselves something like
> Arya.
> India was known as Aryavarta (Land of Aryas) more than 2000 years ago.
> Iran
> is derived from aaryaan. Eire (Ireland) also seems to be derived from
> the
> same root as Arya. I read this in a book.
Hm, I've never heard that any non Indo-Iranian IEans used this term of
themselves before the word 'Aryan' was borrowed into European languages from
Indic pretty recently.
Does anything know anything more about this? In particular, about the
possibiltiy of 'Eire' being cognate?
Andreas