From: e.karloukovski@uea.ac.uk (Vassil Karloukovski) Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars) Date: 05 May 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <7gp50a$cct@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> References: <36ca073a.16343620@news.yale.edu> <36cca3ed.14676934@news.yale.edu> <36cca75c.15555467@news.yale.edu> <36cf2980.190197920@news.yale.edu> <36dee7fa.108219411@news.yale.edu> <36e40f21.4849643@news.yale.edu> <7c6hs4$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$1t8@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <3712427B.DA4346AA@mbay.net> <3713a994.660219@news.yale.edu> <371BFCD7.98263C22@montclair.edu> <372220bb.143446995@news.yale.edu> <37226EDB.7038A129@montclair.edu> <7fuohl$ori@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <372f5c62.91986990@news.yale.edu> <372f5cbe.92079743@news.yale.edu> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.lang there is another cyclic calendar term - "etkh bekhti", reocrded in copies of medieval (Xth c.) bulg. works. That year "etkh bekhti" is said by Tudor Doksov, a nephew of khan Boris, to be the year of the adoption of Christianity in B-ia (thought to be 865 AD). "etkh" is equated to the year "it", the year of the dog of the central-asian solar-lunar calendars (although it is 866 AD!?). Dobrev doesn't try to explain the cardinal number "bekhti", but L. Bazin has the turkic "beshinchi" against it. As for Tudor Doksov, I think, it is the first recorded occasion of a family name ending in -ov. "doks" - probably from "dokhs" ("a boar", the year of the wild boar). VK