[gothic-l] Re: Dirk

[sunnytjatsingh]

Hi Dirk, as you know, JP Mallory and Victor Mair, are very well 
respected modern anthropologists.  In their recent book, entitled 
Tarim Mummies they wrote:

Da (Greater) Yuezhi or in the earlier pronunciation d'ad-ngiwat-tieg, 
has been seen to equate with the Massagetae who occupied the oases 
and steppelands of West Central Asia in the time of Herodotus; here 
Massa renders an Iranian word for "Great", hence "Great 
Getae"
.Others have seen in this word an attempt to capture in 
Chinese the name of a tribe that is rendered in Greek as the Iatioi 
who are recorded in Ptolemy's geography. The original pronunciation 
has been reconstructed as gwat-ti or got-ti or gut-si, which opens up 
distant lexical similarities with the Goths (the German tribes of 
northern and eastern Europe), the Getae (the Dacian, i.e. Balkan, 
tribes northwest of the Black Sea), the Guti (a people on the 
borderlands of Mesopotamia), the Kusha (our Kushans), the Gushi (a 
people mentioned in Han texts and regarded as brigands along with the 
peoples of Kroran), or a combination of some but not all of the above 
(Mallory and Mair 2000: 98-99).

Mallory, J.P & Mair, V.H. The Tarim Mummies. London. Thames & Hudson, 
Ltd.: 2000.

The Iatioi of Ptolemy, by many have, be rendered to be the forefather 
of the modern Jats.  Best Wishes, 




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