From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:25:25 GMT
Organization: Yale University

>TURNESI - 'golden coins'     Turanshi - yellow, golden

probably turan*dj*i:, turun*dj*i

turun*dj*, turan*dj* means "an orange",
turun*dj*i:, turan*dj*i: means "orange colored". the closest i found
was a metaphorical name for the sun by steingass as turun*dj*i: zer
(zar = gold, golden). asside from the fact that the -i: sufifx was i:k
in middle persian, somehow I find this explanation as giving "too
colloquial" a name fo rthe coin.

> in one three-lingual         (Persian)
> passage, containing the
> Greek, the Slav and the
> Bulgar name of the golden
> coins