From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 13 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:59:11 -0700, Mike Wright <darwin@mbay.net>
wrote:


>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?


it's *bit (< mid. chinese byit - mod. pi "brush") + i (denominal, 
thus biti= to write) + g (deverbal).


clauson, pulleybank, giles 8979.

these are in nearly all languages, except south siberian,
obsolete. muslim turkic people generally use arabic
kita:b.


turkic has native yaz= "to write", chuv. s'Ir= (hung. i'r=).
           (perhaps *ya:z=)

this is now generally used.


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>Mike Wright
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