From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 10 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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On Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:50:57 GMT, cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
wrote:


>
>>BELCHUG - a         From the Alanian BbJL
>> metal ring put
>> in the swine’s     (‘a shout, a muzzle’) and
>> snout              CHUG (‘a ring’) [ORS].
>
>
>probably the meaning "handcuffs" and the like are better. 
>perhaps from turkic bilek "wrist"
>
>from another source: "( now replaced by Slavic belezitzi, or
>beleznitzi) 
>		      - handcuff"
>belezitzi from common turkic bilezik < bilek yu"zu"k (yu"zu"k = ring)
>

in "chuvash studies" both are derived from *bilic,ik
hung. bilincs