Talk:Androphagi

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, now in the public domain.

"From an old encyclopedia"? This needs to be sourced. Beginning 23:02, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)

For a long time (see the late Marija Gimbutas's "The Balts" and "The Slavs" for references), it has been very plausibly hypothesized that "Androphagoi" is a Greek translation (occurring in Herodotus) of *mard-xwaar "man-eater" in the old North Iranian language of the Scythians of south Russia and Ukraine (one dialect of which survives as Osetic); from *mard-xwaar derives "Mordva", the name (Russian "Mordvin") of the Finno-Ugrian Erzya and Moksha peoples of east-central European Russia. From Herodotus we can deduce a location for the Androphagoi that is approximately the same as that occupied by the modern Mordva peoples.