From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User) Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars) Date: 20 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <371bf84a.42579616@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$va@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36f6aeef.439178515@news.yale.edu> <7dajnt$ssk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7ei51h$4m5$1@news.ox.ac.uk> <370cf95d.8677457@news.yale.edu> <370ea51f.86370323@news.yale.edu> Organization: Yale University Newsgroups: sci.lang > >TEGARCHUK - in the folk story "The bear and the TEGARCHUK". Unclear word. > >Compare to the Pamirian TEGAR ('a beam, a joist') [DE, 260] The story >itself evolves around some tree. > ? bulghar < turkic teker (round object, wheel) + c,u"k (dim. suffix) >--------------------------------------------------------------- >