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
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Cluster User wrote:

>Vassil Karloukovski wrote:      
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>>>
>>>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)
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>>"bor-hona" - store (Grunberg & Steblin-Kamenskij, page 310)
>>
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>borxona (o renders the labialized a:).
>
>ba:ra in the meaning of produce is found 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)
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>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 

note the preservation of e^ in dari pronounciation.

xa:k means earth, soil. xa:ki: earth colored. thus english khaki.

>an earthen wall. ba:ra is given in the meaning of a wall or
>fortification for persian by steingass.
>
>>"baru" - fence (eastern caucasian)
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