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| One of the reliefs, very likely after a drawing by Yan Liben, at the Penn Museum. Here a general removes an arrow from the horse Saluzi (pic: wiki) |
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| Rock-art from Baykal-Lena region (my facsimile from the book of Semih Güneri) |
Akkadian Sumerian Etruscan Turukku ProtoTurkic Proto Turkic Scythian Sarmatian Thracian PreGreek Pre-Greek Carian Sidetic Luwian Lycian Lydian Asianic Kurmali Karoshthi Indus Script Paulys RE Indo European IndoEuropean IndoGerman Etymology Kelime Köken Kelimeköken Turkish Türk Proto Altaic Uralic No Main Stream Ideas No MainsStream Something New No Racism Against EuroCentrism No Euro Centrism! I'm looking at the things through the Turkic window! * Türkic names in Pliny Strabon Homer Pauly RE
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| One of the reliefs, very likely after a drawing by Yan Liben, at the Penn Museum. Here a general removes an arrow from the horse Saluzi (pic: wiki) |
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| Rock-art from Baykal-Lena region (my facsimile from the book of Semih Güneri) |
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| My list of Akkadian words with intensifying adjectives |
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In Turkish Language we have booster (intensyfing) prefixes. You take the 2 initial letters of the an adjective and add M P R S and than the adjective itself: >SArı: yellow SApSArı: all yellow >BOş: empty BOmBOş: very empty
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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 | |
One of the reliefs, very likely after a drawing by Yan Liben, at the Penn Museum. Here a general removes an arrow from the horse Saluzi (p...