Igor Diakonoff later abandoned his own etymology to support Ivantchik's proposed etymology of the name of the Cimmerians.Askold Ivantchik derives the name of the Cimmerians from an original form * Gimĕr- or * Gimĭr-, of uncertain meaning.Sergey Tokhtasyev and Igor Diakonoff derived it from an Old Iranic term * Gāmīra or * Gmīra, meaning 'mobile unit.'.according to János Harmatta, it was derived from Old Iranic * Gayamira, meaning 'union of clans.'.The English name Cimmerians is derived from Latin Cimmerii, itself derived from the Ancient Greek Kimmerioi ( Κιμμεριοι), ) of an ultimately uncertain origin for which there have been various proposals: The Cimmerians themselves left no written records, and most information about them is largely derived from Assyrian records of the 8th to 7th centuries BC and from Graeco-Roman authors from the 5th century BC and later. Although the Cimmerians were culturally Scythian, they formed an ethnic unit separate from the Scythians proper, to whom the Cimmerians were related and who displaced and replaced the Cimmerians. The Cimmerians were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia.

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