ἄριμα <Iranian; Classical period>
👉 ἄριμα – a Scythian word with the meaning of ἕν ‘one’ (Hdt. 4.27).
⚠ Hdt. 4.27 mentions that there are one-eyed men in northern Scythia; he adds that this tribe is called Arimaspi (Ἀριμασποί) and gives a Scythian etymology of the ethnonym: ἄριμα γὰρ ἓν καλέουσι Σκύθαι, σποῦ δὲ ὀφθαλμόν. – “for in the Scythian tongue arima is one, and spou is the eye.” (trans. A.D. Godley).
🅔 A Scythian word without etymology. Cf. an unsatisfactory connection with Ossetian ærmæst ‘only’. See also σποῦ.
📖 Ref. cf. Brust 2008: 114; Nikić 2009: 24.