From: sarant@ath.forthnet.gr (Nikos Sarantakos)
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 31 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 04:26:45 GMT, cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
wrote:

Some comments, although I am away from my references. So, quoting from
memory.
 >
>DZHURA - a bagpipe.
>
>Compare to the Pamirian JUR ('to tune a musical instrument') [GASK,
>364]

This exists in Greek as a loanword.

 >
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>PEZJUL - an edge of a roof or a shelf under a window. The place 
>where the flowerpots are put in.
>
>Identical to the Pamirian PEZ'L ('a roof's edge') [IJa, 225]

Seems to me alike Greek "pezouli" which means almost
the same and it is certainly a very Greek word.
 >


>SHTERNA - a spout, a tap
>
>Compare to the Kurd SHTORN (the same) [KRS, 460]

Better to compare it to ModGk "sterna", meaning the same,
which comes from MiddleGk kisterna < Lat. cisterna (comp.
Eng. cistern). Actually, the Latin word is a loan from Ancient
Greek "kiste".

Nikos Sarantakos