Re: [tied] Help with ban_Banat

--- "Vassil Karloukovski <v.karloukovski@...>"
<v.karloukovski@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
> === The strong
> > Hunno-Bulgar contacts with the Iranic world
> > (Asparukh's own name?) make a borrowing of their
> "Ban"
> > quite probable (I don't believe it's that
> widespread,
> > if at all, in Turkic languages?).
>
>
> What makes you think Bulgar was Turkic in the first
> place? Why not
> speak of "Bulgar contacts with the Turkic world"
> instead?...

*****GK: Sorry. I used "Turkic" loosely. I meant
Altaic. But your previous post about "Ban" meaning
"mountain" sounds very promising.*****



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