From: "H.M.Hubey" Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars) Date: 20 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <371BFDEE.6042AF1A@montclair.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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> <371bf84a.42579616@news.yale.edu> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com X-Trace: 5Zx7mR1Aldloi+PsAZVMxpjYzE/qxFTExhP4/sA7ZD0= Organization: Montclair State University Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Apr 1999 04:04:18 GMT Newsgroups: sci.lang Cluster User wrote: > > > > >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) Maybe it was terekcuk (little tree). -- Best Regards, Mark -==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= hubeyh@montclair.edu =-=-=-= http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=