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Originally Posted by Seadog Driftwood
Right! Only in the Indic and Iranian branches of Indo-European did the form *h2erio- become applied to a racial name. In other branches, it would mean something like "fellow tribesperson."
The Nazis misunderstood that to terrible results.
In fact, it's impossible to know the eye colour and hair colour of the people the Nazis were trying to refer to. It's only by pure luck that the hair colour of any ancient person is known, through art or mummification or writing...
And there are always variations!
Anyway, this TF isn't purposefully racist. It simply goes back through the human history.
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And makes serious mistaeks.