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:


>
>>ZAGARIJA - a        ZKHGbJR (‘millet’),            Pashto
>> type of wheat;
>> ZAKHIRE, ZAJRE -   ZGKHARA (‘bread of millet’)
>> a general word     [ARS, 294-295]
>> for all types
>> grains             In Chuvash (Middle Volga) the
>>                    same word is preserved as
>>                    CAKHAR (SAKHAR), a legacy
>>                    from the Volga Bulgars.
>

the chuvash word is interesting but I have been unable to find it. the
chuvash word given for millet is a turkic one, cognate  to turkish
darI.

>>                    Probably these words were
>>                    derived from the Pamirian
>>                    word for ‘reddish’ - ZANGOR,
>>                    leading to ZANGOR for          Pamirian
>>                    ‘millet’.
>
>>                    Going along this line, to the
>>                    Bulgarian word for ‘wheat’ -
>>                    ZHITO, corresponds the
>>                    Pamirian ZHIT (‘yellow’).
>>                    That is, ZHITO was derived
>>                    from the yellow colour of the
>>                    wheat grains.
>
>1. ZAGARIJA
>
>turk. zag~are ("millet", rare, 19th cent. redhouse)  < pers. zag~a:re
>"millet"
>
>2. ZAKHIRA, ZAJRA
>
>turk. zahi^re (stored grain) < `ar. *dh*axi^ra(t) (provisions)
>