Quote Originally Posted by The Persian Cataphract View Post
Payai Dunai was derived from an entry in an obscure Saka-Khotanese dictionary; Payai is a well-attested cognate of proto-Indo-European Pa- which means foot or pertains to feet or standing. It could ultimately be compared to Old Persian Payahdag and Middle Persian Paygan which mean infantry.

There is no lingual connection to the word for Danube or Dnieper (Danu Apara; a completely separated root) in Magyar, besides it being a loanword from previous Indo-European examples.
And then I can wonder at how much EB incorporates the most obscure, unseen and unknown knowledge of the world. I've never seen a Khotanese dictionary in my life, let alone knew it existed inside the IE branch, and I wondered where those Nomad names supposedly came all from given that our written record is null. Once more we have to thank the sheltered people who dedicate their lives to such intricate and unspoken things which neverteless become necessary once in a while, even if just for a game.