Persians rendered the name (Scythians') as Sakâ ! Persian S -> H, is a false notion !

[maddhan1979]

It is interesting in Finnish language German people are called "Saksa". In Finland "Finnish" as a language is very new only a few hundred years old.
So they make up lot of new words to express something and they borrow lot of loan words and old words from other languages. Pineapple is called "Annanas", in Finland.
It is not called pineapple. "Annanas" is a Sanskrit word as per my knowledge.

In German langauge speaking countries and other slavic countries we find lot of same family names as "Malik", "Gill", "Bhuller", "Mann (in India it is called Maan)", and we know that we associate our family names with family and tribal identity.

[DrRajpalSingh]

I suspect you will tunnel yourself into a dead end.

The issue is not whether the Persians( and that too is a very loose term) knew the sound' s, sa' or not. They may well have.

The issue is rather that in many cases the sound S transforms into the H sound.


Sarasvati in India is Harahvati in Aghanistan.

Sapt in Haft.( 7)

Sindhu is Hindhu.

Sind is Hindh and so on.

The other dead end trap you are facing is the need to accept the concept of a "scythian".
That is largely a Greek derivative made popular by later colonial writers.


The term Saka is known to Indians, the term Scythian is not.


Best to stay clear of all this

Ravi Chaudhary

Thanks for the Good reasoning to clear the misconception about change of 'S' and 'H'.