From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 11 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:04:27 GMT, cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
wrote:


>>BUMBAK - cotton    PUMBA (‘cotton’) [ARS, 116]    Pashto
>> (noun) (dial.)
>
>turk. pamuk, variant (ott., dial.) panbuk, pambuk < turkic 
>                      < iran. (clauson)
>

clauson derives this word ultimately from greek bombux "silk worm"


>
>
>>KOLIBA - a hut; a    KULBE (‘a hut’) - Persian
>> shanty
>
>greek KALYBH (hut)    > bulghar ? > slavic (on account of the of the
>initial o)
>
>                      >turk. kulu"be (ottom. spelling qul(U)be 
>                      > pers. kulbe 
>                                        
>
>if it was from literary persian it would have been ku"lbe
>in turkish, and thus no spelling with q.
>
>the slavic form is apparently early. NB o for a like many early
>                                 renditions in slavic.
>
>the word makes sense for greek (i.e. is native).
>
>

anna parzymies jezyk protobulgarski (warsaw) p. 117 discusses this
word.