From: Mike Wright Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars) Date: 12 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <3712427B.DA4346AA@mbay.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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$va@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36f6aeef.439178515@news.yale.edu> <7dajnt$ssk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7ei51h$4m5$1@news.ox.ac.uk> <370cf95d.8677457@news.yale.edu> <7en884$1t8@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> X-Accept-Language: en,zh-TW,zh-CN,ja Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@remarQ.com X-Trace: 923943461.152.76 6BUII4S.ME08CCE37C usenet1.supernews.com Organization: Posted via RemarQ Communities, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 18:57:41 GMT Newsgroups: sci.lang Vassil Karloukovski wrote: > = > In article <370cf95d.8677457@news.yale.edu>, cluster.user@yale.edu says= =2E.. > = > ... > >>KNIGA - a book. KKHbN (=91to write=92) Lezgin > >> Attested since the > >> X c. AD in the [LRS, 171-172] > >> form of > >> KUNUKKU (=91a royal > >> KbNIGACHII inscription=92) - Accadian > >> (=91a bookman=92) > = > > turkic * ku"ynig < chinese k`u"en "roll" > > hung. ko"nyv < oghur * ku"niv. > > mordiv. ko*ny*ov < old chuvash * ka*ny*Iv > > chuvash ke~neke < russian > > old uyghur ku"in, ku"in bitig (bitig "book" < chinese also) [...] What is the Chinese word that "bitig" is supposed to have come from? -- = Mike Wright http://www.mbay.net/~darwin/language.html _____________________________________________________ "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." = -- Charles de Gaulle