From: e.karloukovski@uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars) Date: 24 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <7dajnt$ssk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> References: <36ca073a.16343620@news.yale.edu> <36cca3ed.14676934@news.yale.edu> <36cca75c.15555467@news.yale.edu> <36cf2980.190197920@news.yale.edu> <36dee7fa.108219411@news.yale.edu> <36e40f21.4849643@news.yale.edu> <7c6hs4$va@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36f6aeef.439178515@news.yale.edu> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x4.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 139.222.98.203 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Mar 24 11:53:37 1999 GMT Newsgroups: sci.lang X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) In article <36f6aeef.439178515@news.yale.edu>, cluster.user@yale.edu says... ... >>KbCI-KbCI - a call to KUCHA, KbCO >> dogs > >turk. kuc,u kuc,u (perhaps ultimately from iranian) dog is "kuche" in bulgarian, so no need to involve turkish for k@ci-k@ci, also kuchi-kuchi. Thank you for the other words, it seems you are going to invalidate 30-40% of the words in the list... :-)) Although it doesn't mean there couldn't be earlier, iranian forms for these words in pre-ottoman bulgarian. Regards, Vassil K. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own