From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 12 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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On 10 Apr 1999 10:13:24 GMT, e.karloukovski@uea.ac.uk (Vassil
Karloukovski) wrote:

>In article <370cf95d.8677457@news.yale.edu>, cluster.user@yale.edu says...
>
>...
>>>KNIGA - a book.       KKHbN (‘to write’)           Lezgin
>>> Attested since the
>>> X c. AD in the       [LRS, 171-172]
>>> form of
>>>                      KUNUKKU (‘a royal
>>> KbNIGACHII           inscription’) - Accadian
>>> (‘a bookman’)
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>> 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)
>>
>>+ turkic c,i
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>there is also the Armenian "knik" (a seal), which together with
>the Lezgin "kh'n" (to write) are probably derived from the Mesopotamian

the lezgin word is kx^in (x^ representing palatal x).
it very well be denominal from a word for book, now
replaced by arabic kita:b, borrowed from the bulghar 
or common turkic word coming from chinese.

>tradition.
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>VK
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