Warrior Class

[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> wrote:
>
> ...The
> hypothetical loan could refer to some particular kind of cavalry,
> e.g. auxiliary Alans. The problem is we don't know the Alanic or
> Hunnish word either. Modern Ossetic has baræg for "horseman", but I
> don't know if it's not a later loan from some North Caucasian
idiom.
> Somehow it doesn't look like inherited Iranian. 

Never trust your eyes! I was just told by people competent in this 
stuff that Oss. baræg IS inherited. Namely it comes from *bâraka-, 
common to all Northeast Iranian dialects. In the Migration period 
Alanic it was probably already *bâraga. The latter could be borrowed 
into Gothic as *baraga M.-an. Hypothetical semantics (that's 
absolutely arbitrary): "(Alanic) mounted warrior".

See: [http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/pies/pdfs/IESV/1/VVI_Horse.pdf] 
(pp. 84-85).

And our discussion here:
[http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/gothic-l/message/9882]

Ualarauans

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