From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 12 May 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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On Wed, 05 May 1999 23:10:59 GMT, cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
wrote:

>On 5 May 1999 10:02:50 GMT, e.karloukovski@uea.ac.uk (Vassil
>Karloukovski) wrote:
>
>pritsak tackles this (from the turkic viewpoint <<fu"rsetnliste>> p.
>58-60
>
>>
>>there is another cyclic calendar term - "etkh bekhti", reocrded in copies 
>
>etx' is interpeted as (y)etxi (chuvash yIta~ < *Ita) , common turkic
>It (later it) + suffix.

there is also a khazar name rendered as i:ta:x (Itax etc.)

>
>>of medieval (Xth c.) bulg. works. That year "etkh bekhti" is said by 
>>Tudor Doksov, a nephew of khan Boris, to be the year of the adoption of 
>>Christianity in B-ia (thought to be 865 AD). "etkh" is equated to the year 
>>"it", the year of the dog of the central-asian solar-lunar calendars (although
>
>maybe a differnce in "newyear's day - and the bulghar calender didn't
>follow the saka)
>
>>it is 866 AD!?). Dobrev doesn't try to explain the cardinal number "bekhti",
>>but L. Bazin has the turkic "beshinchi" against it. As for Tudor Doksov, I