From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
Subject: Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars
Date: 25 Feb 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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On 24 Feb 1999 22:06:09 GMT, e.karloukovski@uea.ac.uk (Vassil
Karloukovski) wrote:


>
>I asking this having im mind the odd "Celtic" translations of Dobrev of
>some old Bulgar inscriptions. In most cases he relies on (eastern) Iranian
>(or eastern Caucasian) but for some words both Iranian and Celtic parallels
>are found:
>
>both the Iranian "hulburae" (protection cover) and the Celtic "hlubram"
>(canopy) probably correspond to the old Bulgar "hl(o)ubrin", mentioned 
>in a list of armaments; to the Bulgar "kosr" - the Iranian "kasr" (temple, 

what's the bulgar context and the iranian source?

latin has castrum and castellum, a dimunitive.

>church) and the Celtic "kasl" (castle); to "san" - the Iranian "shun" 
>(shining) and the Celtic sun, san (sun, star); to "tvir" (four) - the 
>Celtic "teoir" and the Iranian "zfir"; to "hos" - the Celtic "hius" 
>(sacred, magic), etc.
>