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Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 10 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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>Words, preserved in the historical and archaeological monuments from the
>VI-X cc. AD:
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> Old Bulgar word              Closest analogies
>

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> AULI - the Greek name of     Auli - a building with a
> the palace of Krum           high wall (Pamirian)
>

 < turkic ag~ul, ag~Il (an enclosure, sheep or cattle pen, later 
                        village)

hung. o'l (cattle pen), chuvash yal

>
> VER - the year of the        Berka - a big snake (Eastern
> Dragon                       Caucasian)
>
>                              Waran (Pamirian)

veren < turkic evren "dragon", "firmament (i.e. sky, stars etc.),
                       (also "oven") from evir= to turn around
apparently ewren/evren was latter found as a volgabulghar name.

either e/v reversal or evren > *o":ren > veren (o": > ve - found 
in -r turkic.

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> TOKH - the year of the       Tukh - a hen (Pamirian)
> Cock
>                              Tokh - a hen (Ugric)
>

hung. tyu'k < og~uric *tIvuq < turkic taq:ag~u, taquq etc.
(chuvash studies)

>
> SHEGOR - the year of the     Sheg - a bull (Pamirian),
> Bull (Ox)
>                              Ceg (Eastern Caucasian)
>
>                              Shegor - a deer-bull
>                              (zekhre)
>

turkic sIg~Ir "cattle," large quadruped.

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>Words from the language of the Volga Bulgars:
>
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> Volga Bulgar word            Closest analogies
>

> KHADANK - a type of tree    Khadank - a poplar,
>
>                             Khada - a lime-tree
>                             (Pamirian)
>

fadlan xa*dh*ank, xa*dh*ang

turkic acc. to doerfer and rona-tas, chuvash studies p. 163)
rona-tas argues on geography.

kashgari: qa*dh*I*ng* > oghuz qa:yI*ng*
                      > chuvash xura~n
                      > xadIn (tuva), xazIn (xakas), xatIn (yakut)
   i.e. all regular sound changes.

fadlan x- may be a develpoment within volgabulghar.