From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 22826
Date: 2003-06-07
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From: g
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 4:34 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Yers
>> The Turkish words in all Balkan languages are their newest loans - you
will find none of them in OCS. Or so it seems logical to me.
> So Huns, Avars, Khazars, Petchenegs, Cumans, Seldjuk Turks didn't leave
any Turkic lexical elements prior to the Tatar and then Ottoman conquests?
Of course they did. For example, OCS bisIrU 'pearl', c^rItogU 'chamber',
kUn'igy 'book', kumirU 'idol', boljarinU 'nobleman' and sanU 'dignity' are
of Turkic origin. So is the ethnonym Bulgar(ian) (<blUgarU>).
Piotr