Editing Hunnic language (section)

==Corpus==
Contemporary observers of the European Huns, such as [[Priscus]] and the 6th century historian [[Jordanes]], preserved three words of the language of the Huns: {{quote|In the villages we were supplied with food – millet instead of corn – and ''[[Hunnic cuisine#Medos|medos]]'' as the natives call it. The attendants who followed us received millet and a drink of barley, which the barbarians call ''[[Hunnic cuisine#Kamos|kamos]]''.{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|p=424}}{{sfn|Pronk-Tiethoff|2013|p=58}}}} {{quote|When the Huns had mourned him [Attila] with such lamentations, a ''strava'', as they call it, was celebrated over his tomb with great revelling.{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|p=425}}}}

The words {{lang|xhc|medos}}, a beverage akin to [[mead]], {{lang|xhc|kamos}}, a [[barley]] drink, and {{lang|xhc|strava}}, a [[funeral]] feast, are of [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] origin,{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|pp=424–426}} possibly Slavic, Germanic or Iranian.{{sfn|Pronk-Tiethoff|2013|p=58}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Schenker |first=Alexander M. |author-link=Alexander M. Schenker |date=1995 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0lzGQgAACAAJ |title=The Dawn of Slavic: an introduction to Slavic philology |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |pages=6 |isbn=9780520015968 |access-date=2015-11-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123083748/https://books.google.hr/books?id=0lzGQgAACAAJ |archive-date=2015-11-23 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Vékony |first=Gábor |author-link=Gábor Vékony |date=2000 |title=Dacians, Romans, Romanians |url=https://archive.org/details/daciansromansrom0000veko |url-access=registration |publisher=[[Matthias Corvinus]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/daciansromansrom0000veko/page/236 236] |isbn=9781882785131 |access-date=2020-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924031853/http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/chk/ |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Maenchen-Helfen]] argued that ''strava'' may have come from an informant who spoke Slavic.{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|p=425}}

All other information on the Hunnic language is contained in the form of personal and tribal names.{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|p=376}}