[gothic-l] Re: Alans and Huns

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

--- In gothic-l at y..., czobor at c... wrote:
> About the Alans, three more thinks are to be said:
> 
> 1. In Crimea, Alans lived together with Crimean Goths, becoming 
> eventually assimilated by the later; the bishopric of Crimea was 
> called "the bishopric of Goths ans Alans". This couls explain the 
> presence of Iranic words in Crimean Gothic, such as sada "hundred", 
> hazer "thousand", stap "goat".
> 
> 2. A group of Alans migrated in Pannonia some 1000 years ago and 
> settled between the Tissa river and Danube. In Hungarian they are 
> called "Jász". They became liguistically assimilated by the 
> Hungarians, but are until now a distinct ethnic group. Their 
original 
> language is considered the source of some Iranic words of Hungarian 
> (for instance, ezer "thousand", very similar to the corresponding 
> Crimean Gothic word - hazer).
> 
> 3. There are modern descendants of Alans who conserved their 
original 
> Iranic language: the Ossetians of Caucasia.
> 
> Francisc


Hi Francisc,

here is a link to a paper that basically confirms what you say above. 
Interestingly, the author argues that the modern Ossetic language 
includes Germanic words like thau = tauen in modern German and thaw in 
English; and gau= gau in German and region/area in English. If that 
was really true, maybe the Ossetic language perserved a few Gothic 
words?

http://www.cais-soas.co.uk/origin_of_the_iranians.htm

cheers
Dirk




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