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Scythian
The approximate distribution of Eastern Iranic languages and peoples in 100 BC appears in green.
Native toSarmatia, Scythia, Sistan, Scythia Minor, Alania
RegionCentral Asia, West Asia, Eastern Europe
EthnicityScythians, Sarmatians, and Alans
EraClassical antiquity, late antiquity

Middle Ages (Alanian)

Modern era (Ossetian)
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
xsc – Scythian
xln – Alanian
oos – Old Ossetian
xsc Scythian
 xln Alanian
 oos Old Ossetian
Glottologsogd1247  Sogdic-Ossetic
saka1303  Saka-Wakhi
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The Scythian languages (

Indo-European language, more specifically from the Iranic group of Indo-Iranic
languages.

Most of the Scythian languages eventually became extinct, except for modern

Alanian dialect of Scytho-Sarmatian), Wakhi (which descends from the Khotanese and Tumshuqese forms of Scytho-Khotanese), and Yaghnobi (which descends from Sogdian). Alexander Lubotsky summarizes the known linguistic landscape as follows:[1]

Unfortunately, we know next to nothing about the Scythian of that period [Old Iranian] – we have only a couple of personal and tribal names in Greek and Persian sources at our disposal – and cannot even determine with any degree of certainty whether it was a single language.

Classification

Ossetian is an Eastern Iranic language. The vast majority of Scythological scholars agree in considering the Scythian languages a part of the Eastern Iranic languages too. This relies principally on the fact that the Greek inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea Coast contain several hundreds of Sarmatian names showing a close affinity to the Ossetian language.[2][3]

Some scholars detect a division of Scythian into two dialects: a western, more conservative dialect, and an eastern, more innovative one.[4] The Scythian languages may have formed a dialect continuum:

  • Alanian languages or Scytho-Sarmatian in the west: were spoken by people originally of Iranic stock from the 8th and 7th century BC onwards in the area of Ukraine, Southern Russia and Kazakhstan.
    • Modern Ossetian survives as a continuation of the language family possibly represented by Scytho-Sarmatian inscriptions, although the Scytho-Sarmatian language family "does not simply represent the same [Ossetian] language" at an earlier date.
Khotan written in Khotanese Saka, part of the Eastern Iranic branch of the Indo-European languages, listing the animals of the Chinese zodiac
in the cycle of predictions for people born in that year; ink on paper, early 9th century

It is highly probable that already in the Old Iranic period there were some eastern Scythian dialects which gave rise to ancestor(s) of Sogdian language and Yaghnobi, although data required to test this hypothesis is presently lacking.[6]

The Scythian languages shared some features with other Eastern Iranic languages, such as the use of the suffix -ta to denote the plural form, which is also present in Sogdian, Chorasmian, Ossetian, and Yaghnobi.[7]

Phonology

The Pontic Scythian language possessed the following phonemes:[8]

Vowels
Front Back
Close i u
Mid
Open a
Consonants
Labial Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Labiovelar Glottal
Plosive
p b
t
d
(earliest)
k ɡ
Affricate
t͡s t͡ʃ d͡ʒ
Fricative
f θ ð (earlier) s z ʃ ʒ x h
Sonorant m w
l
(later)
n
r
j (ŋ)

This article uses cursive theta ⟨ϑ⟩ to denote the Scythian

voiceless dental plosive (IPA /
/).

The western dialects of the Scythian languages had experienced an evolution of the Proto-Iranic sound /d/ into the Proto-Scythian sound /ð/, which in the Cimmerian and Pontic dialects of Scythian became the sound /l/. Scythian shares the evolution of Proto-Iranic sound /d/ into /ð/ with all Eastern Iranic languages with the exception of Ossetian, Yaghnobi, and Ishkashimi; and the later evolution of /ð/ into /l/ is also present in several Eastern Iranic languages such as Bactrian, Pashto, Munjani, and Yidgha.[7][8]

History

Early Eastern Iranic peoples originated in the

.

Corpus

Inscriptions

Some scholars ascribe certain inscribed objects found in the

to the Scythians, but the interpretation of these inscriptions remains disputed (given that nobody has definitively identified the alphabet or translated the content).

Saqqez inscription

An inscription from

Scythian presence in Western Asia, and written in the Hieroglyphic Luwian script, may represent Scythian:[10]

Inscription of Saqqez
Line Phonetic transliteration Scythian transcription English translation
1 pa-tì-na-sa-nà tà-pá wá-s₆-na-m₅ XL was-was-ki XXX ár-s-tí-m₅ ś₃-kar-kar (HA) har-s₆-ta₅ LUGAL patinasana tapa. vasnam: 40 vasaka 30 arzatam šikar. UTA harsta XŠAYAI. Delivered dish. Value: 40 calves 30 silver šiqlu. And it was presented to the king.
2 par-tì-ta₅-wa₅ ki-ś₃-a₄-á KUR-u-pa-ti QU-wa-a₅ Partitava xšaya DAHYUupati xva- King Partitavas, the masters of the land pro-
3 i₅-pa-ś₂-a-m₂ ipašyam -perty

The king Partitava mentioned in this inscription is the same individual as the Scythian king Pṛtatavah, whose name is attested as Bartatua in Assyrian records and as Protothyēs in Greek records.[11]. However, the hieoglyphic readings used by Harmatta are now outdated. E.g., the name par-tì-ta₅-wa₅ would have to be transliterated as pa+ra/i-lá/í-tí-wa/i₅, if one replaces the older sign readings by the current ones.

Issyk inscription

The

Kushans, tentatively translating:[12]

Issyk inscription
Line Transliteration English translation
1 za(ṃ)-ri ko-la(ṃ) mi(ṃ)-vaṃ vaṃ-va pa-zaṃ pa-na de-ka mi(ṃ)-ri-to The vessel should hold wine of grapes, added cooked food, so much, to the mortal,
2 ña-ka mi pa-zaṃ vaṃ-va va-za(ṃ)-na vaṃ. then added cooked fresh butter on

Personal names

The primary sources for Scythian words remain the Scythian toponyms, tribal names, and numerous personal names in the ancient Greek texts and in the Greek inscriptions found in the Greek colonies on the Northern Black Sea Coast. These names suggest that the Sarmatian language had close similarities to modern Ossetian.[13]

Recorded Scythian personal names include:

Name Attested forms Notes
*Ariyapaiϑah
romanized
Ariapeithēs
Composed of:[14][15][16][17]
*Ariya-, meaning "Aryan" and "Iranic."
*paiϑah-, meaning "decoration" and "adornment." Compare with Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬯𐬀 (paēsa).
*Hiϑāmϑrauša
romanized
Idanthursos
Meaning "prospering the ally." Composed of:[18]
a cognate of Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬚𐬄𐬨 (hiϑąm), meaning "companion."
a cognate of Avestan 𐬚𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬱 (ϑraoš-), meaning "to prosper."
*Hupāyā
romanized
Opoiē
Composed of:[15]
*hu-, "good."
*pāyā-, "protection"; an abstraction of the root *pā-, "to protect."
*Pālaka
romanized
Palakos
From an earlier form *Pāδaka after the evolution of Proto-Iranic /d/ to Proto-Scythian /δ/ to Scythian /l/. Means "tall-legged" and "long-legged." Composed of:[19][20]
*pāla-, "foot," from earlier *pāδa-.
*-ka, hypocoristic suffix.
*Pṛtatavah
romanized
Protothuēs
Means "who is mighty in battle." Composed of:[22][23][24]
*pṛta- "battle." Compare with Avestan 𐬞𐬆𐬱𐬀𐬥𐬀 (pəšana) and Vedic Sanskrit पृत् (pṛt-), both meaning "battle."
*-tavah- "strength, power." Compare with Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬵 (-tauuah-).
*Pr̥ϑutavā Composed of:[25][26]
*pr̥ϑu- "wide, broad." Compare with Avestan 𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬎 (pərᵊϑu-).
*-tavah- "strength, power." Compare with Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬵 (-tauuah-).
*Šaitafarna
romanized
Saitapharnēs
From a sibilisation of Proto-Scythian *Xšaitafarna,[27] possibly meaning "with a bright farna," itself composed of:[28]
*xšaita-, "brilliant."
*-farna, "khvarenah."
*Šaϑraka
romanized
Satrakēs
From a sibilisation of Proto-Scythian *Xšaϑraka,[27] itself composed of:[29]
*xšaϑra-, "power."
*-ka, hypocoristic suffix.

Cognate with Ossetian Æхсæртæг (Æxsærtæg)[30] and Æхсæртæггатӕ (Æxsærtæggatæ).[31]

*Šīraka
romanized
Sirakēs
From a sibilisation of Proto-Scythian *Xšīraka,[27] possibly meaning "milk-consumer," itself composed of:[29]
*xšīra-, "milk."
*-ka, hypocoristic suffix.
*Skilura
romanized
Skilouros
From an earlier form *Skiδura after the evolution of Proto-Iranic /d/ to Proto-Scythian /δ/ to Scythian /l/. Means "sharp" and "victorious."[19]
*Skula
romanized
Skulēs
From the Scythian endonym *Skula, itself a later dialectal form of *Skuδa resulting from a sound change from /δ/ to /l/.[32]
*Spakāya
Akkadian: 𒁹𒅖𒉺𒅗𒀀𒀀, romanized: Išpakāya[33] Hypocoristic derivation from the word *spaka, meaning "dog."[34][35][16]
*Spargapis
romanized
Spargapisēs
Composed of:[15][16][36][17]
*sparga- "scion" and "descendant." Compare with Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬖𐬀 (sparᵊγa).
*pis- "decoration" and "adornment." Compare with Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬯𐬀 (paēsa).

*Spargapis and *Spargapaiϑah are variants of the same name.[37][15][36]

*Spargapaiϑah
romanized
Spargapeithēs
Composed of:[15][36][16][17]
*sparga- "scion" and "descendant." Compare with Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬖𐬀 (sparᵊγa).
*paiϑah- "decoration" and "adornment." Compare with Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬉𐬯𐬀 (paēsa).

*Spargapaiϑah and *Spargapis are variants of the same name.[37][15][36]

*Tigratavā
romanized
Tirgataō
Means "with the strength of an arrow." Composed of:[38][15]
*tigra- "arrow." Compare with Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬌 (tiγri-), "arrow."
*-tavah- "strength, power." Compare with Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬵 (-tauuah-).
*Taumuriya
romanized
Tomuris
Derived from a cognate of Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬊𐬑𐬨𐬀𐬥 (taoxman) and Old Persian 𐎫𐎢𐎶𐎠 (taumā), meaning "seed," "germ," and "kinship."[15]
*Uxtamazatā
romanized
Oktamasadēs
Means "possessing greatness through his words." Composed of:[15]
*uxta-, "word." Compare with Avestan 𐬎𐬑𐬙𐬀 (uxta), "spoken," and 𐬎𐬑𐬜𐬀 (uxδa), "word."
*-mazatā-, "great."
*Varika
romanized
Orikos
Hypocorostic derivation from the word *vari-, meaning "chest armour, armour." Compare with Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌 (vaⁱri-), 𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬌 (uuari-) "chest armour."[15]

Tribal names

Recorded Scythian tribal names include:

Name Attested forms Notes
*Haxāϑrauša
romanized
Agathursoi
Means "prospering the friend/socius." Composed of:[18]
a cognate of Old Persian 𐏃𐎧𐎠 (haxā-), meaning "friend."
a cognate of Avestan 𐬚𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬱 (ϑraoš-), meaning "to prosper."
*Šīraka
romanized
Sirakes
From a sibilisation of Proto-Scythian *Xšīraka,[27] possibly meaning "milk-consumer," itself composed of:[29]
*xšīra-, "milk."
*-ka, hypocoristic suffix.
*Skuδa[39][40] Akkadian: 𒅖𒆪𒍝𒀀𒀀, romanized: Iškuzaya
𒊍𒄖𒍝𒀀𒀀 (Asguzaya)
𒊍𒆪𒍝𒀀𒀀 (Askuzaya)
𒀾𒄖𒍝𒀀𒀀 (Ašguzaya)

romanized
Skuthai

*Skuδa, the Scythian endonym,[39][40]

From the Proto-Indo-European root skewd-, itself meaning lit.'shooter, archer', whence also English "shoot".[41]

*Skula
romanized: Skōlotoi[42][8]
Later form of *Skuδa resulting from the evolution of Proto-Scythian /δ/ into Scythian /l/.[39]
*Paralāta
romanized: Paralatai[42][8]
Cognate with Young Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬜𐬁𐬙𐬀‎ (Paraδāta), meaning "placed at the front."[16]

Place names

Some scholars believe that many toponyms and hydronyms of the Russian and Ukrainian steppe have Scythian links. For example,

Don with an assumed/reconstructed unattested Scythian word *dānu "water, river", and with Avestan dānu-, Pashto dand and Ossetian don.[43]
The river names
Don, Donets, Dnieper, Danube, and Dniester, and lake Donuzlav (the deepest one in Crimea) may also belong with the same word-group.[44]

Recorded Scythian place names include:

Name Attested forms Notes
*Baurustāna
romanized
Borusthenēs
Means "place of beavers." Composed of:[45]
*bauru- "beaver." Cognate of:
  • Avestan 𐬠𐬀𐬡𐬭𐬀 (baβra) and 𐬠𐬀𐬡𐬭𐬌‎ (baβri), meaning "beaver"
  • Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú) and बभ्रुक​ (bábhruka), meaning "mongoose"
*stāna "space."
*Dānu
romanized
Tanais
Means "river."[15]
*Pantikapa
romanized
Pantikapaion
Means "fish-path." Composed of:[46]
*panti-, "path." Compare with Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧‎𐬙𐬃‎ (paṇ‎tā̊), "path."
*kapa-, "fish." Compare with Khotanese Saka kavā, Ossetian Кӕф kæf, and Pashto کب (Kab).
*Rahā
romanized
Rha
Means "wetness." Compare with Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬁 (raŋhā) and Vedic Sanskrit रसा (rasā́).[47]
*Varu
romanized
Oaros
Means "broad."[48]

Herodotus' Scythian etymologies

The Greek historian Herodotus provides another source of Scythian; he reports that the Scythians called the Amazons Oiorpata, and explains the name as a compound of oior, meaning "man", and pata, meaning "to kill" (Hist. 4,110).

  • Most scholars associate oior "man" with Avestan vīra- "man, hero", Sanskrit vīra-, Latin vir (gen. virī) "man, hero, husband",[49] PIE *wiHrós. Various explanations account for pata "kill":
    1. Persian pat- "(to) kill", patxuste "killed";[50]
    2. Sogdian pt- "(to) kill", ptgawsty "killed";[51]
    3. Ossetian fædyn "cleave", Sanskrit pātayati "fell", PIE *peth₂- "fall".[52]
    4. Avestan paiti- "lord", Sanskrit páti, PIE *pótis, cf. Lat. potestate (i.e. "man-ruler");[53]
    5. Ossetian maryn "kill", Pashto mrəl, Sanskrit mārayati, PIE *mer- "die" (confusion of Greek Μ and Π);[54]
  • Alternatively, one scholar suggests Iranic aiwa- "one" + warah- "breast",
    a- (privative) + mazos, "without breast
    ".

Elsewhere Herodotus explains the name of the mythical one-eyed tribe Arimaspoi as a compound of the Scythian words arima, meaning "one", and spu, meaning "eye" (Hist. 4,27).

  • Some scholars connect arima "one" with Ossetian ærmæst "only", Avestic airime "quiet", Greek erēmos "empty", PIE *h₁(e)rh₁mo-?, and spu "eye" with Avestic spas- "foretell", Sanskrit spaś-, PIE *speḱ- "see".[56]
  • However, Iranic usually expresses "one" and "eye" with words like aiwa- and čašman- (Ossetian īw and cæst).
  • Other scholars reject Herodotus' etymology and derive the ethnonym Arimaspoi from Iranic aspa- "horse" instead.[57]
  • Or the first part of the name may reflect something like Iranic raiwant- "rich", cf. Ossetian riwæ "rich".[58]

Scythian theonyms

Name Attested forms Notes
*Tapatī́
romanized
Tabiti
Means “the Burning One” or “the Flaming One.”[59][60]

Related to:[61][62][63]

Avestan 𐬙𐬁𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌‎ (tāpaiieⁱti), “to warm.”
Sanskrit तापयति (tapayati), “to heat” and “to warm”; theonym तपती (Tapatī); तपस् (tápas)
Latin tepeo.
*Api
romanized
Api
and Απια, romanized: Apia
Related to Avestan 𐬀𐬞𐬌 (api), "water."[62]
*Targī̆tavah
romanized
Targitaos
Means "possessing the might of the goddess Tarkā." Composed of:[64]
*Targiya, "of the goddess Tarkā."
*-tavah- "strength, power." Compare with Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬵 (-tauuah-).
romanized
Artimpasa
Composed of:[62]
Iranic theonym *Arti
a term related to *paya, "pasture" and *pati, "lord."
*Apatura
romanized
Apatouros
Means "swift water." Composed of:[65]
*ap-, "water." Related to Avestan 𐬀𐬞 (ap-), "water."
*tura-, "quick" or "mighty."
*Gaiϑāsūra
romanized
Goitosuros
Composed of:[16]
*gaiϑā, "herd" and "possessions." Cognate of 𐬔𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬙𐬌𐬱 (gaoiiaoⁱtiš), "cow pasture."[66]
*sūra, "strong" and "mighty."
romanized
Thagimasadas
and Θαμιμασαδας, romanized: Thamimasadas
Composed of:
a possible cognate of
Avestan 𐬚𐬡𐬁𐬴𐬀 (ϑβāṣ̌a), "firmament," and Vedic Sanskrit
त्वक्ष् (tvakṣ-) or तक्ष् (takṣ-), "to create by putting into motion."
mazatā, meaning "great."[15]
*Lipoxšaya
romanized
Lipoxais
From an earlier form *Δipoxšaya after the evolution of Proto-Iranic /d/ to Proto-Scythian /δ/ to Scythian /l/.

Means "king of radiance" and "king of heaven." Composed of:[67]

*lipa, from earlier *δipa, "to be bright" as well as "sky" and "heaven."
*-xšaya, "ruler."
*R̥buxšaya
romanized
Arpoxais
Means "king of the airspace." Composed of:[68]
*r̥bu-, a cognate of Sanskrit ऋभु (Ṛbhú), the name of a group of deities of the airspace.
*-xšaya, "ruler."
*Kolaxšaya
romanized
Kolaxais

Latin
: Colaxes

From an earlier form *Koδaxšaya after the evolution of Proto-Iranic /d/ to Proto-Scythian /δ/ to Scythian /l/.
Means "axe-wielding king," where the axe also has the meaning of "sceptre," as well as "blacksmith king," in the sense of "ruling king of the lower world." Composed of:[69]
*kola, from earlier *koδa, "axe."
*-xšaya, "ruler."

Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder's Natural History (AD 77–79) derives the name of the Caucasus from the Scythian kroy-khasis = ice-shining, white with snow (cf. Greek cryos = ice-cold).

Aristophanes

In the comedy works of

Scythian archer (a member of a police force in Athens) speaks broken Greek, consistently omitting the final -s () and -n (ν), using the lenis in place of the aspirate, and once using ks (ξ) in place of s (sigma); these may be used to elucidate the Scythian languages.[70]

Alanian

The Alanian language, as spoken by the

Byzantine Greek authors recorded only a few fragments of this language.[71]

Unlike the Pontic Scythian language, Ossetian did not experience the evolution of the Proto-Scythian sound /d/ to /δ/ and then /l/, although the sound /d/ did evolve into /δ/ at the beginning of Ossetian words.[7]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Lubotsky 2002, p. 190.
  2. ^ Compare L. Zgusta, Die griechischen Personennamen griechischer Städte der nördlichen Schwarzmeerküste [The Greek personal names of the Greek cities of the northern Black Sea coast], 1955.
  3. .
  4. ^ E.g. Harmatta 1970.[page needed]
  5. ^ Schmitt, Rüdiger (ed.), Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum, Reichert, 1989.[page needed]
  6. ^ Novák 2013, p. 11.
  7. ^ a b c Ivantchik 1999a, p. 156-158.
  8. ^ a b c d Novák 2013, p. 10.
  9. .
  10. ^ Harmatta 1999, p. 124.
  11. ^ Harmatta 1999, p. 123.
  12. ^ Harmatta 1992, p. 412.
  13. .
  14. ^ Hinz 1975, p. 40.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Schmitt 2003.
  16. ^ a b c d e f Schmitt 2018a.
  17. ^ a b c Schmitt 2011.
  18. ^ a b Schwartz & Manaster Ramer 2019, p. 359-360.
  19. ^ a b Kullanda & Raevskiy 2004, p. 93.
  20. ^ Tokhtasyev 2005, p. 88.
  21. ^ Ivantchik 1999b, p. 508-509: "Though Madyes himself is not mentioned in Akkadian texts, his father, the Scythian king Par-ta-tu-a, whose identification with Προτοθύης of Herodotus is certain."
  22. ^ Bukharin 2011, p. 63.
  23. ^ Kullanda & Raevskiy 2004, p. 94.
  24. ^ Melikov 2016, p. 78-80.
  25. ^ Schmitt, Rüdiger (2000). "PROTOTHYES". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  26. ^ Bukharin 2011.
  27. ^ a b c d Kullanda 2014, p. 81.
  28. ^ Bukharin 2013, p. 273-274.
  29. ^ a b c Bukharin 2013, p. 270-271.
  30. ^ Alemany 2006, p. 33.
  31. ^ Ivantchik 2005, p. 183.
  32. ^ Ivantchik 2018.
  33. ^ "Išpakaia [CHIEFTAIN OF THE SCYTHIANS] (RN)". Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 2023-04-30. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
  34. ^ Ivantchik 2005, p. 188.
  35. ^ Schmitt 2009, p. 93–94.
  36. ^ a b c d Schmitt 2018b.
  37. ^ a b Hinz 1975, p. 226.
  38. .
  39. ^ a b c Tokhtasyev 2005a, p. 68-84.
  40. ^ a b Tokhtasyev 2005b, p. 296.
  41. ^ Szemerényi 1980, p. 20-21.
  42. ^ a b Witczak 1999, p. 52-53.
  43. ^ M. Vasmer, Untersuchungen über die ältesten Wohnsitze der Slaven. Die Iranier in Südrußland, Leipzig 1923, 74.
  44. JSTOR 40265408
    .
  45. ^ Kullanda 2013, p. 39-41.
  46. .
  47. ^ Brunner, C. J. (1986). "ARANG". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 13 August 2022. Middle Persian Arang/Arag renders Avestan Raŋhā, which is cognate with the Scythian name Rhâ (*Rahā) transmitted by Ptolemy
  48. ^ Harmatta 1999, p. 129.
  49. ^ "Vir – the Latin Dictionary".
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