From: remus <remus_a@NOSPAMmailexcite.com>
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid T/B)
Date: 27 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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>From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
>Newsgroups: sci.lang
>Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
>Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 05:27:41 GMT
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>>GAVANKA (GAVANA)    Compare to the Persian GAWAM  Mundzhani
>> - a wooden bowl            (=8Ca form, a moulded vessel=82)
>>	                           and the Mundzhani
>>	                            GbWIJA [AG, 305]
>
>romanian ga~van , =


In the case of "ga~van", the Romanian dictionary says, "compare with
Bulgarian and Serbian <<vagan>>". The same dictionary says "gavanos" <
Turkish "kavanoz".

('Romanian dictionary', i.e. linguists of the Romanian Academy)

rgds,
Remus