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Herodotus's Scythians and Ptolemy's Central Asia: Semasiological and Onomasiological Studies

By Helmut Humbach , Klaus Faiss

Book information

Publisher
Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag
Year
2012
ISBN
9783895008870
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4406475 bytes)
Pages
\51
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-06-07 11:31:10

Description

A study of Scythian words and personal names found in Herodotus and place names from Central Asia transmitted by Ptolemy, for most of which Humbach proposes Iranian etymologies, following in the footsteps of Vasmer, Harmatta, Schmitt and recently Mayrhofer.

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