From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 19 Feb 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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> TUBA - ‘a vow’ or ‘a holy    Tuba - a vow, a pledge
> gift’. In the expression     (Pamirian, Eastern
> "Tongan iz polou tuba        Caucasian)
> obasa"

I would discard tuba. `ar. tawba(t) - vow (of regret)

>                              Or from Tuva - a gift (See
>                              below)

> TUVIN - in the Omurtag's     Tuwa - a gift (Talish,
> expression "And the tuvin    Eastern Caucasian)
> is famous, fine."
>                              TUVIN probably means ‘given
>                              as gift’