Homeric-doru-and-ouriachos-Turkic-togru-and-orak

 

Greek δόρυ/doru/dory -> Spear

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Wiki says:

The dory or doru (/ˈdɒruː/; Greek: δόρυ) is a spear that was the chief spear of hoplites (heavy infantry) in Ancient Greece. The word "dory" was first attested by Homer with the meanings of "wood" and "spear".

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Doru was a weapon that was used in 4. Century BCE.

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There is a great parallel word to this DORU in Old Turkic. In Kaşgarî's, Divan-i Lugati't-Türk, 1073 we see the word Togru/Tugru meaning

"thin iron inserted into the handles of swords, knives, daggers."

link: togru/dogru

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and doğru (read it like dooru) means in Turkish "straight" 

(German gerade aus; wahr).

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These are, I can say, parallel words that could be related to each other.

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There is an other surprise in this wiki article about Ancient Greek warfare!

Further we read: 

The rear of the spear was capped with a spike called a sauroter (Greek: σαυρωτήρ). It was also called ouriachos (οὐρίαχος)

Wiki article about Greek weapons / warfare

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The Greek word Ouriachos is the interesting one here.

There is a Turkic word called ORAK (Old Turkic orġak (read it like Oruak)) 

meaning simply "sickle".

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I think these words are of Turkic origin with a slight alteration.

Summary:

Greek doru: a speer

Turkic douru: thin iron inserted into the handles of swords, knives, daggers.

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Greek ouriachos : A spike that we can find on the rear of the spear 

Turkic: Orak/orġak: a sickle

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Uzunbacak Adem