- 'glory of the
airyas' (airiianąm xᵛarənō), the 'most swift-arrowed of the
airyas' (xšviwi išvatəmō airiianąm), or the 'hero of the
airyas' (arša airiianąm)...
- the
names of
various tribes who
lived in
proximity to each other: "the
Airyas [Aryans],
Tuiryas [Turanians],
Sairimas [Sarmatians],
Sainus [Sacae] and...
-
vasara 'hammer' from
Avestan vadžra,
vajra and orja 'slave' from arya,
airya 'man' (the
latter probably via
similar cir****stances as
slave from Slav...
- peoples) (Proto-Indo-Iranian speakers) Proto-Iranians (Proto-Iranian speakers)
Airyas Ahiryas Dahis (possible
ancestors of the
Dahae or Dasa)
Sainus Sairimas...
- was "ēr" (Middle
Persian equivalent of Old
Persian "ariya" and
Avestan "
airya").
Richard Nelson Frye
defines Greater Iran as
including "much of the Caucasus...
- and ary- in ērān and aryān
derives from Old
Iranian *arya- ([Old Persian]
airya-,
Avestan airiia-, etc.),
meaning "Aryan", in the
sense of "of the Iranians"...
- Armenian; those, in turn, come from the
Iranian forms:
ariya in Old Persian,
airya in Avestan,
ariao in Bactrian, ary in
Parthian and ēr in
Middle Persian...
- of a
mythical land at the
centre of the world, and also of
wherever the "
Airyas" or
Avestan people found themselves living.".
Witzel 2000, pp. 47-48. Darmesteter...
- Yasht, 143-4, five
divisions are
recognized among the Iranians,
namely the
Airya (a term
which the
Avestan people appear to use of themselves), Tuirya, Sairima...
-
which Aria is a
component element, are
connected with the
Avestan term
Airya-, and the Old
Persian term Ariya-, a self-designation of the
peoples of...
