From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 03 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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On Sat, 03 Apr 1999 20:20:16 GMT, cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
wrote:

contains a few additional remarks or a summary of previous
discussions.

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>
>>NUGA - nougat -        NEGA (‘hard, strong’) [AG]   Mundzhan
>> a type of hard
>> white khalva
>
>romanian nuga < lat. nux "nut"
>

x as in latin ks.

>

it is not arabic in spite of the alteration of forms with and without
t. I odn't know if there is a greek angle.

the englsih word "nougat" goes to western romance languages (oxford
englsih dictionary) from a proto-romance *nuca:tum < latin nux.