From: e.karloukovski@uea.ac.uk (Vassil Karloukovski)
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 10 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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In article <370cf95d.8677457@news.yale.edu>, cluster.user@yale.edu says...

...
>>KNIGA - a book.       KKHbN (‘to write’)           Lezgin
>> Attested since the
>> X c. AD in the       [LRS, 171-172]
>> form of
>>                      KUNUKKU (‘a royal
>> KbNIGACHII           inscription’) - Accadian
>> (‘a bookman’)

> turkic * ku"ynig < chinese k`u"en "roll" 
> hung. ko"nyv < oghur * ku"niv.
> mordiv. ko*ny*ov < old chuvash * ka*ny*Iv
> chuvash ke~neke < russian
> old uyghur ku"in, ku"in bitig  (bitig "book" < chinese also)
>
>+ turkic c,i


there is also the Armenian "knik" (a seal), which together with
the Lezgin "kh'n" (to write) are probably derived from the Mesopotamian
tradition.


VK