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The search continues. Below you will find names from antiquity and my suggestions from Turkish regarding their etymology. We keep on with the letters I K and O.
Source: https://topostext.org/the-people
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Arama-bulma çalışmaları devam ediyor. Aşağıda antik çağlardan adlar ve kökenlerine dair Türkçe önerilerimi bulacaksınız. I K ve O harfleriyle devam ediyoruz.
Kaynak: https://topostext.org/the-people
Topostext Name | Info | Türkic word | Info | Other Info |
iacchus | a minor deity who held torch on depictions | yak- | to burn | there are many Türkic possibilities like yaġız meaning brownish (color of skin) or yagış sacrifice. |
ialemos | funeral song | ıġla-/yıġla- | to cry | ulı-: to howl |
ialmenos | son of Ares, a warrior in Trojan war | yelme: pioneer unit in the amy of Türks | yalman: cutting part of a sword | yamlan: a marmot in Kypchak Türkish |
iapydes | an ancient tribe | yabı: horse | yabıt: horses | i have already written a detailed blog about those |
iapygian | an ancient tribe | yapıg/yapag | vlies | i have already written a detailed blog about those |
iardanus | a river on Crete | yar | precipice, steep bank, steep slope, cliff by the river | |
iazyges | an ancient tribe | yazıg | Steppe | obvious compatibility |
icarus | he who got higher and higher and fell | yukaru | high, higher, upwards | |
icilia gens | The gens Icilia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. During the early Republic, the Icilii were distinguished by their unwavering support for the rights of the plebeians against the patrician aristocracy | ikili/igil | an instrument with 2 (iki) strings | „The only surname of the early Icilii was Ruga, which properly belonged to many of the Icilii, but they are usually mentioned without a cognomen" here we can see again a Türkic word urug meaning seed, lineage. |
Idanthyrsus | A Scythian character | ıdan: sender/ who lets free | The very old Türkish verb ıd- means to send, to let free and suffix +an has the function to make a maker of that verb before. That means "ıdan" means he who sends/lets free. The penultimate part of the name +tır is a suffix that derives transitive verbs from intransitive verbs and causative verbs from transitive verbs. | i have already written a detailed blog about those |
ienysos | a city in Arabia | yaŋı | new | su: water |
ilderic | was the penultimate king of the Vandals and Alans in North Africa in Late Antiquity (523–530) | İlteriş Kağan | uniting, integrating the land/people | His father Huneric (Hun) and Grandfather Geiseric (Gezer) and Mother Eudocia (Ayduk/Iduk) could have Türkic etymologies, too. |
iliturgis | a city on Iberia | el: land/people | Türk | |
inakhos | first king of Argos | inak | a high rank in Türkish state institution from ina- to trust | |
issedones | an ancient tribe in Asia north of Massageteans | isi | warm, hot, to get warm | for DON I don’t have a good proposal (ton= the dress) |
issos/issus | a pace of a big battle, today iskenderun Türkiye | isi-su | warm water | |
Kabeiraia (big deities) Beekes wrote that the root should have been Pre-Greek *kabary | an epithet of Demeter | Kabar-: to get big, to swell, > swollen | They are from Samothrake, an island that I consider as one of the Urheimat der Thraken (See Otrak : Island in Türkish) | Versions like Kabirios, Kabirinos oder Kabirichos |
Kaietoi | Strabo: "Kaietoi" is derived "Kaietas," the word among the Lacedemonians for their "prison," which is a sort of cavern | kaya: big rock | tas: a stone/stony place | See Kaiadas/Kaiatas in Beekes Pre-Greek lexicon: pit or cavern at Sparta, into which people sentenced to death (or their bodies) were thrown’ |
Kairos | is an ancient Greek word meaning 'the exact or critical time' | Kayra/ Kayır Han | His father is the first God, Gök Tengri, he has no mother. He determines the fate of the universe. | There are others. Urartians had a deity called Kuera, Huns had a Thunder-god Kuara (by Albanian missionary bishop Israel, 682 AD), and Bulgarians Kuara/Kvara (directly corresponding to Türkic Kayra). |
Kantharos | a hero’s name; a big drinking vessel | kantur-/kandur- | to be full, to be satisfied | kana kana su içmek: drink till you can not drink anymore; also see Kendük/Kandi etc meaning a vessel. Wiki says: to Akkadian 𒃶𒁺𒊒𒌑(kanduru, “kind of vessel”), pointing to "loanword from the Near East“ |
Karkinites River / Karkina City | Both in today’s Ukraine | Karkın | a very old Türkic tribe | literally it means overflowing and satisfying |
King Teucer | Τεῦκρος Teûkros) was said to have been the son of the river-god Scamander and the nymph Idaea. | toygar/torgay/toruga | skylark | a bird as a name ist very compatible with Türkic onomastics |
Kodopa | was a town of ancient Lycia | *oba | cavity, valley | |
Komyros | Carian divinity and epithet of Zeus | Komur Khan | God of evil | Erlik Khan’s son |
Korakes/corax/Korax | name of people and men / meaning raven | Karga | Raven | lit. black bird |
Kostobokoi/Costoboc | an ancient Dacian tribe | Güzetbükü | Köz; Küzet (both watch- (v); and police station) Bük: shore, collar, corner | Bük like in the other tribe name Karambukai |
Kydrara | Phrygian border town | ara | place in between | koduru: all, whole |
Kyrbas | a hero from Crete | kır: grey | baş: head | also see the headgear with the name Kyrbasia |
Kyrbissos | a town in ancient Caria | su | water | |
Ochus/Ochos | A Persian King who called himself later Darius | Oguz/Okuz | a very old Türkic name | His siblings Apama, Sisygambis have a Türkic melody, too. Apa-ama and Çiçegim |
Octamasades | A Scythian king (5th C BC) | okta- | to shoot arrows | oktamas: he who doesn’t shoot arrows + ata |
Odoacer | A Germanic chieftain | ot-tokar | fire-touch | many etymologies in www like Ot-toghar" ("grass-born" or "fire-born"), or the shorter form "Ot-ghar" („herder"). |
Odysseus | a very famous character in Homes stories | oduz- | to lead | |
Oebalus | King of Sparta | Aybala | Moon-child | |
Oberes II | according to Herodotus (Herodotus 6.33) a son of Megabazus, himself a first degree cousin of Darius I. Oebares became satrap of Daskyleion (Hellespontine Phrygia) in 493 BC, after his father. | Aybars | Moon-leopard | |
Oebares | was a Persian officer of Cyrus the Great (fl. c. 6th century BCE) | Aybars | Moon-leopard | |
Oebotas | the son of Oenias, was an ancient Greek athlete | Aybatu | Moon-jewel | Batu: jewel (Fuzuli Bayat) |
Oecumene | οἰκουμένη (oikouménē) 'the inhabited world') | üy: house, dwelling place | kamu?: all together, all people | |
Oeoclus | mythical son of Ascra and Poseidon, founder of Ascra | ay-oglu | moon-son | |
Oeolycus | mythical Spartan warrior, son of Theras | ay-… | Moon-… | |
Oetolinus | An ancient name | Ay-tolun | Full-moon | |
Oetylus | an ancient name | Ay-tülü | Moon-Dream | |
Ogulnius | Roman gens | ogul | son | |
Ogyris | an island in Persian gulf | ogur | an od Türkic tribe | |
Oiobazos | A Persian | Ay-bars | Moon-leopard | |
Okhos | A Persian who killed Apis-bull | öküz | bull | |
Ombri/Ombrios | Ombrios is an epithet of Zeus meaning rain/rainy | yamgur / yangur / yagmur | rain | |
Ordessus | a river in South Romenia | orta: middle/centre | su: water | maybe a river where the orta/orda of the King was settled. |
Orgocyni | A tribe in Scythia | örgü | braided | they who had braided hair |
Many Ortha… names | orta: middle/centre | center where the King resides | ||
Orthokorubanthes | A Saka tribe | Orta koru | they who stood in the centre, who protected the centre (Koru-: to protect, fence) | |
Orxines | Persian noble (4th C BC) | Orkun | a river name | |
Otacilius | Roman gens | otag: tent | parts of a house | |
Oxii | an ancient tribe | okçu | archer | |
Oxycanus | a chieftain in India | oguz khan | an other Oguz Khan | |
