From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User) Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars) Date: 09 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <36e5638e.346935226@news.yale.edu> References: <36ca073a.16343620@news.yale.edu> <36cca3ed.14676934@news.yale.edu> <36ccb13d.18084634@news.yale.edu> <7ap23l$klu@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36dc5653.5725843@news.yale.edu> <7bk2dp$39@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36dde855.22846201@news.yale.edu> Organization: Yale University Newsgroups: sci.lang Vassil Karloukovski wrote: > >> >>3. Boru - a stronghold >> (Pamirian, Persian) > > >"bori" - big stone, stone barrier > (Grunberg & Steblin-Kamenskij, Wakhanskij azIk, 1976) > (Note: the bulgar fortresses were built of big ashlar blocks - quadras) > >"bor-hona" - store (Grunberg & Steblin-Kamenskij, page 310) > borxona (o renders the labialized a:). ba:ra in the meaning of produce is found in wakhi. this word would be derived from that. apparently a similar meaning for ba:ra is found in persian (lorimer). >"bara" - rampart (Russko-pushtu-dari slovar', M., 1983, page 366) > ba:ra is given by the dictionary for pashto, not dari persian. the dari word given is xa:kre^z (tehrani xa:kri:z), implying an earthen wall. ba:ra is given in the meaning of a wall or fortification for persian by steingass. >"baru" - fence (eastern caucasian) >