From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User) Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars) Date: 03 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <370677a5.81342634@news.yale.edu> 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$va@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36f6aeef.439178515@news.yale.edu> <7dajni$slk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: Yale University Newsgroups: sci.lang >GAVANKA (GAVANA) Compare to the Persian GAWAM Mundzhani > - a wooden bowl (‘a form, a moulded vessel’) > and the Mundzhani > GbWIJA [AG, 305] ital. gavagno (< late lat. * cavaneus < lat. cavus) > turk. kavanoz (dial. gavana) > romanian ga~van , ga~vanos thus ital. or late lat. > greek > slavic, turkish, romanian. >GEGA - a GJAKA, GEKA (‘a hook’) [LRS, Lezgin > shepherd’s crook 97] > (with a hook a > the end) prob. turk gaga (apparently dial. gege) "beak" < ? `ar. qa`qa` ("to crow" non-literary loan) also an alternative romanian etymology. >ZAGARIJA - a ZKHGbJR (‘millet’), Pashto > type of wheat; > ZAKHIRE, ZAJRE - ZGKHARA (‘bread of millet’) > a general word [ARS, 294-295] > for all types > grains In Chuvash (Middle Volga) the > same word is preserved as > CAKHAR (SAKHAR), a legacy > from the Volga Bulgars. > Probably these words were > derived from the Pamirian > word for ‘reddish’ - ZANGOR, > leading to ZANGOR for Pamirian > ‘millet’. > Going along this line, to the > Bulgarian word for ‘wheat’ - > ZHITO, corresponds the > Pamirian ZHIT (‘yellow’). > That is, ZHITO was derived > from the yellow colour of the > wheat grains. 1. ZAGARIJA turk. zag~are ("millet", rare, 19th cent. redhouse) < pers. zag~a:re "millet" 2. ZAKHIRA, ZAJRA turk. zahi^re (stored grain) < `ar. *dh*axi^ra(t) (provisions) >LOZINKA - a password LOZIM (‘necessary, Pamirian > (dial.) needed’) [RTS, 385; RPDS, > 389] LOZIM < `ar. la:zim >NUGA - nougat - NEGA (‘hard, strong’) [AG] Mundzhan > a type of hard > white khalva romanian nuga < lat. nux "nut" >PINTIJA - a skinflint, a Similar to the Pamirian > miser Pamirian and Talish > PINTI (‘filthy’) > [TRS, 183] Talish turk. pinti < pinedos (eyuboglu), < pinaros (sarantakos) pinaros meaning "filthy" which seems to be shared by sanskrit.