Re: Caucasus - a Germanic name?

From: Yusuf B Gursey (ybg_at_theworld.com)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: 28 Sep 2004 10:05:16 -0700

sklar2002@yandex.ru (Igor Sklar) wrote in message news:<5a635d65.0409270315.882840c@posting.google.com>...
> dgshhfhfhd@voila.fr (Mistranslator) wrote...
> > Hello to everyone,
> >
> > I am wondering what is the origin of the word "Caucasus".
>
> I believe the origin is Scythian.
>
> Click http://tinyurl.com/4o3dw for more info.
>
> regards

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From: e.karloukovski@uea.ac.uk (Vassil Karloukovski)
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Subject: Re: Saka tribes and Scythians problem
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Here is one example of Scythian glosses occasionally reported by
the ancient authors. Pliny (NH VI, 50) has:
  " ... Scythae ipsi Persas Chorsaros et Caucasum Croucasim, hoc
    est nive candidum..."
  " ...The Scythians themselves (call) the Persians Chorsar-,
    and the Caucasus - Croucasi-, that is "white from snow".

 
"Croucasi" for the Caucasus from the Iranian *xrohu, shining ice.
(W. Eilers, M. Mayhofer, Namenkundliche Zeugnisse der indischen
Wanderung? Eine Nachpruefung, Die Sprache, VI, 1960, S. 116-117).

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