From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 15 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:


>
>>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
>

in a book by dobrev (not put on the website) dobrev alledges that this
bulghar suffix is not turkic - he claims the turkic suffix is *dj*i -
but the sumerian suffix *sh* and the "east caucasian" suffix *ch*i.

actually the turkic suffix is originally *ch*i (with unvoiced /ch/) -
and this form is found in the turkic languages of the north caucasus.
the voiced form only occurs according to the rules of sound harmony of
the oghuz group of turkic languages. it appears frequently in loans in
many other languages and has even become productive in some of them.