From: mcv@wxs.nl (Miguel Carrasquer Vidal) Subject: Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars Date: 27 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <37178890.1462235983@news.wxs.nl> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <369E3BE1.5C45@sbu.ac.uk> <77li2j$qi0$1@whisper.globalserve.net> <369F52FE.2B6@sbu.ac.uk> <77rc86$auj$1@brokaw.wa.com> <36A444B3.F3B70F1C@alum.mit.edu.-> <7827sb$269$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36A52D70.9E372DD2@alum.mit.edu.-> <36A556AB.9927BD29@montclair.edu> <36a63533.58309714@news.yale.edu> <7866ud$i9m$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36cdb21e.883120019@news.wxs.nl> <36A7FCC8.79790A6B@earthlink.net> <36d77e23.1000882888@news.wxs.nl> <36a8d455.81661202@news.yale.edu> <36AC3460.856801F6@earthlink.net> <36ae814d.4306061@news.yale.edu> <36AEE9D8.4A3F8755@earthlink.net> <36af5752.1195388@news.yale.edu> <3714630c.1452636942@news.wxs.nl> <36af8318.504996@news.yale.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wxs.nl X-Trace: reader1.wxs.nl 917473895 5100 195.121.40.108 (27 Jan 1999 21:51:35 GMT) Organization: World Access / Planet Internet Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mcv@wxs.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Jan 1999 21:51:35 GMT Newsgroups: sci.archaeology,sci.anthropology,sci.lang On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:20:55 GMT, cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User) wrote: >>[I'm not sure, but doesn't bolghar mean "mixed"?] > >I have not heard of that etymology, where did you get from? My Spanish (!) etymological dictionary (G. Gómez de Silva): Bulgaria [..] probably from a Turkic ethnic name akin to Old Turkish bulghar "mongrel", from bulghamak "to mix, blend" (Turkish bulamak "to smear, to mix"). OTOH, I myself did propose a connection with the river name Volga, and when I asked the Altaicist Sasha Vovin about the etymology of Bulgar, he also guessed it might be connected to the river name. ======================= Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv@wxs.nl Amsterdam