Pietroasa and other toponyms (etymology +)

[Francisc Czobor]

The Ossetic word xox "mountain" is not related rather to the Persian 
koh or kuh "mountain"? Both Ossetic and Persian are Iranic languages.

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> wrote:
>
> ...
> 
> We probably stand on a safer ground when the language is concerned. 
> As I said I'm particularly interested in Gothic folk-etymology, as 
> far as we may reconstruct that. We perhaps agree that the Visigoths 
> (and their "slow brothers" Gepides) entering Dacia and living there 
> for about a century or more could not escape contacts with the 
> native (post-?)Dacian population and its religious beliefs. So, 
when 
> hearing the word Kogaion, which (a wild guess) could be related to 
> Cauco-(c)ensii and < IE *kouko- > PG. *xauxa- > Go. hauh-s, 
couldn't 
> they produce smth like *Hauhaio F. -on (formally after attested 
> armaio), to give it some sense in their speech? And the Alans, 
their 
> loyal allies (remember the cavalry of Safrac at Adrianople), 
keeping 
> till nowadays (in Ossetic) the word `xox', i.e. [kho:kh], 
> for "mountain"...
> 
> Ualarauans
>






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