ἄνορ <Iranian; Early Byzantine period>
👉 ἄνορ – a Scythian gloss in the meaning of νοῦς ‘mind’ (Hsch. α 5269).
⚠ Hsch. α 5269: ἄνορ· νοῦς, ὑπὸ Σκυθῶν – “anor: mind, (called so) by the Scythians”.
🅔 A Scythian gloss without etymology. A suggestion that ἄνορ is a miswriting of αἰόρ (v.l. of οἰόρ) ‘man’ seems to be unjustified for semantic reasons. Cf. also an implausible explanation of ἄνορ as an Iranian compound consisting of *anu- (Old Persian anu ‘along, according to’, Sanskrit anu ‘after, afterwards’, often used as a prefix) and *-wīra (Modern Persian wīr ‘mind, intellect, reason’ etc.).
📖 Ref.: cf. Brust 2008: 486; Mayrhofer 2006: 21; Witczak 1992: 58.