The Turkic languages place the stress on the final syllable, while
the word bUlgarin is pronounced with the stress on the first
syllable. The stress is written explicitly on the first syllable in the
oldest Bulgarian Inscriptions in Greek, so obviously they
reflected the orginal pronunciation of the word by Bulgarians
themselves. The vowel in the first syllable is translated as /u/ by
Turks, /u/ by Greeks, /o/ by Russians, /u/ by Serbs, etc.
Obviously, those languages could not reproduce this vowel
correctly.
How will you explain this?
Eva
--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci" <
a_konushevci@...> wrote:
> So is the ethnonym Bulgar(ian) (<blUgarU>).
> >
> > Piotr
> ************
> According to Petar Skok, ethnonym Bulgar(ian) is derived from
> Turkish verb bulgamak 'to mix', believing that Bulgarians are
mixed
> tataro-turkic nation, so <bulgar> means in Old Turkish 'mixed'.
This
> explanation was accepted even from Mladenov (ERHSJ, JAZU,
Zagreb,
> 1971, pp. 228).
>
> Konushevci