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Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 18 May 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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dobrev has:

> Volga Bulgar word            Closest analogies
>

>
> KALI - a woman, a wife      Kali - a woman, a wife
>                             (Georgian)


I haven't been able to obtain a copy of the rona-tas
reference that dobrev gives, but a study of the inscriptions
gives kiye:l (with alif hence written like kiya:l ) probably
representing ke.l or ke.:l (e. closed e, in c. turkic the vowel
is short) fro "wife". with the ppssesive suffix it would become ke.li,
this  seems to be a short form of kelin (turkish gelin), ke.lin,
"bride" (properly "daughter in law") from the verb kel-, ke.l- , gel-
"to come" (i.e. into the family). in chuvash it has been shortened to
"kin" ( < * kil + en). 

I don't know about the georgian word. turkic has qarI "old " (fror a
person or animal, in oghuz (old turkish etc.) used for "old woman",
thus in turkish "wife".



the reference seems to be:

Language and history : contributions to comparative Altaistics
                   / Andršas Ršona-Tas.
 Published:      Szeged : Universitas Szegediensis de Attila Jšozsef
Nominata,  1986.