From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 29 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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dobrev's decipherment has:

>ES (eight) (discovered  AZ (Torv.), AS (Bashk.),      ASHTAU - Sanskr.; ES
> in Murfatlar's               ASH, ASTE (Prasun),           (eth) - Celt., EIGHT -
> inscriptions)                 HESHT (Tal.)                        Engl.

bashk. is presumabely bashkir. this has hik@*dh* (eight) which is the
peculiar bashkir rendering of common turkic sekiz.

at least some of the phonetic peculairities are due to an alanic (i.e.
iranian) substratum, but the word is turkic.

I don't know what torv. stands for.