Saraparians | A Thracian tribe | sarı | yellow | bar: existing; par: onom. for the burning things, shining things; barağ?: cattle yard |
Zariadris | A commander | sarı: yellow, golden | adır-: to kill? (=ayır) | çeri: soldier, army |
Sapaians | a people | sap- | 1 to leave the way, go astray, deviate 2 sideway 3 dodge, trick |
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Alybians | a people | al | red | yabı? = horse
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Chalybians | a people | çal | variegated | yabı? = horse
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Otroiai | a town in Bithynia | otru/otruğ | the middle; the island |
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Angdistis | Anatolian Goddess | Ang: wild game | Karakhanid:aŋ-dɨ- 'to hunt', aŋčɨ 'hunter' (MK) | ang: to understand |
Solymians | a people who lived in Phrygia | sol | left | the left ones |
Ioulioupolis
| a city in Anatolia | Yol: road | balik: city | yollu-balik= a city with (a good) road |
Azanitis | a district in Anatolia | az- | to go astray |
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Besbikos | an Island (Imrali) | beš: 5 | bek: firm, solid, stable | were there 5 points that were reinforced |
Kyzikenian | a region. From the legendary chieftain Kyzikos | KIZIK | angry |
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Artakes | a mountain | artak | ruined, flyblown |
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Melanos | a promontory
| bel | mountain pass, ridge |
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Eukarpia | a town in Anatolia | yokar/yokaru | upwards, higher ground |
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Apama | the mother of an Emperor (Antiochos Soter) | Apam | my mother OR Apa-ana: the mighty mother) (Apa: is a kind of title for big, mighty, powerful) | See Apia, Scythian goddess of earth |
Karoura | is the boundary between Phrygia and Karia. It is a village with inns and fountains of hot water, some of which are in the Maiandros River and others above its banks.
| kara: black | ara: the place between | or Koru-ara: fenced-place in between OR Koru-ora: fenced (protected) place, OR: middle (like in orta, ordu). |
Acharaka | a town in Caria, Old name Charax(Χάραξ), The earth (there) is easily broken and crumbling but is salty and easily burned. Perhaps this is why the Maiandros is winding, because it frequently changes its stream and carries much silt down, adding it at different times to different parts of the shore, although some of it is forced out into the sea.
| kara: black, burned? | Charax = karaç? | karaç means a kind of black, like black, blackish. There is a Türk tribe Karaçay whose name possibly derived from their ancestor KARAÇ |
Kyme | a town on the coast, today Aliaga in Türkiye | kum | sand |
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Thebe | a toponym near to Troy | tepe | hill |
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Themistokles | a „Greek“ General, He was one of a new breed of non-aristocratic politicians who rose to prominence in the early years of the Athenian democracy. (Non aristocratic like Türks in other states who came as slaves and became masters?) | Themis | Tengiz: sea, ocean | oglu: son |
Orthannes | a phallic daemon | ortan | the middle (the middle of the body?= penis, vagina) | or-: to split, to cut (that that split to lips of vagina?) about ortan: https://www.academia.edu/94724258/Türkiye_Türkçesi_Ağızları_ve_Altay_Türkçesinde_Ortan_Orton_Kelimesi_Üzerin_L_N_Gumilyev_Üniversitesi |
Konisalos | a phallic daemon | konış | neighbor from the verb kon- to land, to stay near to sth/sbd |
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Tychon | a phallic daemon | dog- | come up, rise, get up (to erect?) |
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Attalids | a dynasty in Pergamon, founder father Attalus | ata: father | ATALI: he who having a father | atlığ: he who has a name OR equestrian (he who has a horse (AT). |
Kallipolis | a small town | kalı | a place to stay/to live | polis < balik: city |
Apaisos | a river | apa/apay: big, respectable | su: water | aba: elder sister, grandma, etc. |
Gergitha | a city in Lydia | kerki | adze, razor, mattock | -t: plural suffix |
| PAGE 563: There are many identical names among the Thracians and Trojans, such as the Thracians who are called the Skaians, the Skaios River, Skaian Wall, and the Skaian Gates at Troy. There are Thracian Xanthians and the Xanthos River at Troy. There is an Arisbos that empties into the Hebros, and an Arisbe at Troy. There is a Rhesos River at Troy and a Rhesos who was king of the Thracians. There is also another Asios, with the same name, according to the Poet: Asios, who was the maternal uncle of Hektor the tamer of horses and Hekabe's own brother, the son of Dymas who lived in Phrygia on the stream of the Sangarios. [Iliad 16.71719] | Thracians and Trojans had probably a similar language |
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Aiakidai | a people | ay: moon | akı: generous, munificent | ay is a very popular part of many names meaning moon like Ayhan, Aygül, Aybars, … |
Aias | Ajax | Ayas/ayas | a male slave whose face is very bright | ay: moon (white) |
Achaians | is one of the names in Homer which is used to refer to the Greekscollectively, Robert S. P. Beekesdoubted its validity and suggested a Pre-Greek*Akaywa-.[3] | ak: white | ay: moon | akay: white moon |
Kallikolone | 10 stadia above the Village of the Ilians is a particular hill 5 stadia from which the Simoeis flows.
| Kal-: to heap up | kol: a side/a wing of an army; kol: the direction | because a hill is higher, maybe there was a military unit that stayed there and watched |
Aisyetes | a Trojan hero | ay: moon | syet? süt? (milk) | very bright and white face? There are many names in Turkish history with AY at the beginning, |
Kabessos/Kabassus | a town in Anatolia | Kaba: swollen | su: water | kabıs-: to make a battle, to fight |
Karesos | a river in Asia Minor | karı: old | su: water | kara: black |
Erichthonius | a character in Greek Mythology who had „snake feet“ | erig: rough | ton: dress | rough-dressed |
Altes | Lord of the Lelegians | altı: six | altı: the one below the first one < alt: below, down | başaltı: the second of the five ranks in which wrestlers are separated in oil wrestling. baş: the first one (lit. head) |
Koryphantis | a town name | koru- : protect | bant-: to add, to tie, |
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Polichna | a town in today’s Urla / Izmir | baliq | city | Today’s Balikliova. The Türks didn’t have to change the name of the town too much :); +an is a plural suffix |
ἀγκυλότοξος (angilotoksos) | the Paionians with „crooked bow“ /(ἀγκυλότοξος) | okçu | bowman |
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Bargylia
| a town name | bargıl- | to go, to leave | city of whom went away, left (the tribe); var: assets, home |
Oitaians | Οἰταίοι, a tribe in Ancient Greece | ay: moon | tai: mountain | oy-: 1 to pick, peck 2 embroidery 3 thimble; oy: 'pit, lowland’, >>> OYTAY: carved mountain, *OR* OYTAY: Pit & Mountain |
Tyrtamos | a town, Theophrastos was originally called Tyrtamos
| Tortamış | A Cumanic town name in Gagauzia | Tur-: to stop, to stay, to stand |
Teutamos | A Pelasgian chieftain | Tutamış | a oymak (big family) of Oghuz Slur tribe | there is a tutamış as toponym in Türkic Anatolia and if true a horoscope sign of the Old Türks was called tutamış (13-22 November). |
Hamaxitos | a city name | -çV | Suffix that make profession | kaymak?, yamak? |
Pylaios | the ruler of the Pelasgians, son of Teutamos (above) | Bulayık | a town name in ancient Uyghur Türk Lands | ?<Bulay: here, there its a Bulay Han in Dede Korkut stories and as I have found in www there was a Kara Bulay (I have written a blog about that) |
…from Kyme to Adai…(C622) | a sentence of a destination | kum: sand | ada: island | Proto-Turkic: *ātag: island |
Batieia | a hill before Troja | bat-: to sink | it is the hill where the Trojans gathered to fight. The Türks had always tughs that they sunk in the earth, if they wanted to fight. | tugh (original tuğ): flag, banner, symbol worn on a spearhead; batrak: flag from bat- |
Eumenes | a person name | öy: to praise | +men: an emphasizing suffix | oyman: a deeper place |
Attalos | the brother of Eumenes | ata: father | +lV: with, who is having |
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Abaeitians | a people | apa/abay: mother, aunt, elder sister | ete ~ ata: father, forefather |
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Kibyratis
| a town founded by Cibyratae (Ancient Greek: Κιβυρᾶται) | Kıbır | a very old Türk tribe | Kıbrat: a very old Türk clan name |
Timaois Τιμαῖος | a philosopher | Tüm: whole | ay: moon | >Tümay |
Mount Korakion | A mountain in Torbalı | Kurġaġ/kurġak | simply „the earth“ | kurı-: to dry |
Korykos | an ancient city in Cilicia | koru- : protect | koruk?: protected |
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Maiandros | a river, a deity, a city in West Türkiye | bayundur, bayindir, bayandır | the rich one, der wohlhabende | <bay: richt |
Kallinus Καλλῖνος | a "Greek" poet | kalın | 1 thick, stiff 2 numerous |
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Koskinia | a town name | koskın | strap attached to the saddle by passing under the animal's tail | not sure if the Turkish word old enough |
Orthosia | a town name. Its site is located near Yenipazar in Asiatic Turkey.[1][10] | orta | the middle; the place where the chieftain lives |
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Althaimenes | a person name | Altay | Altay mountains in the Urheimat of the Türks | +men/+man the emphasizing suffix (C653) Page 617 |
Kamiros | a city on Rhodes (*bright-shining* Kamiros) | kama/Kamaš | 1 become blinded, dumb 2 (set) teeth on edge 3 to be tired, pine, droop |
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ielysos/ialysos | a city on Rhodes | yel: wind | su: water | yal-: to shine, to burn |
baskanoi | sorcerer; eve-eye-ers | baš kam | the first kam (sorcerer) |
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Opikians | a people | abık | an old Turkish name | abı-: to hide, to cover up |
Alabandians | a people | ala: reddish, many colored | ban-: to tie | they who were red-belted? |
Arkonnessos | island Kara / Bodrum Türkiye | Arkun | many. slow, big, a kind of horse, etc. | su: water |
Masthles | a person who led the Carians of barbarian speech | basıt- | to oppress, to crush; to suppress, to repress, to overwhelm |
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Tarkondimitos | King of Cilicia | Tarkan | an old Türk title | page 636 |
Teukros | the founder of Salamis in Cyprus
| toygar | a bird of prey |
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Iakchus | "Iacchus of the bull's horns", and according to the 1st-century BC historian Diodorus Siculus, it was this older Dionysus who was represented in painting and sculpture with horns, because he “excelled in sagacity and was the first to attempt the yoking of oxen and by their aid to effect the sowing of the seed” | yak | a wild ox of Central Asia | yak is called as grunting ox |
Peukolaitis | a town in Ghandara | bük | thicket |
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Akesines | a river in India | ak-: to flow |
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Sarmanes | deeply religious man | sarman | very white or very yellow | Sarman is a cat name for the orange cats in modern Türkiye |
Karmania | aplace name in Persia | kara: black | man: emphisizing Suffix (very black) |
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Sagartoi | a nomadic people that lived in Karmania | sag-: to milk > sagar: milker | sıġır: cattle |
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Kyrtians | a nomadic people in Persia | kurt | worm |
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Magoi | Priests | bögü | scholar, physician, shaman |
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Ouxians | A non-persian Nomadin people | okçu | archer |
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Kardakians | a Nomadic people who has high felt hats like Kyrgyz kalpak (Ak-kalpak) and kopis as weapon (Kopis is like yataghan knife) and sagaris (from çakar : hammer). | Kardak: they who have light injuries. (> Modern Gazi) kart-: to get an injury, wound. +ak diminutive suffix | kardak could easily be explained Turkish. | They are called Kardakians, as they are nourished by theft, and "karda" means "manly" and "warlike." Their daily regimen after the gymnastic training is bread, barley cake, cardamom, lumps of salt, and meat roasted or boiled in water, and their drink is water. They hunt by throwing javelins from horses and with bows and slings. In the afternoon they are trained in gardening, gathering roots, making weapons, and the an of fishing and hunting nets. The boys do not touch what they have hunted but it is customary to bring it home. The king establishes prizes for running and the pentathlon. The boys are adorned in gold, since they hold its fiery appearance in honor, and because of this they do not apply it to a corpse, as is also the case with fire. They serve in the army and hold commands for twenty to fifty years, both as foot soldiers and cavalry. They do not make use of an agora, for they neither sell nor buy things. They are armed with a rhomboidal wicker shield, and in addition to quivers they have sagareis and kopides, and on their heads a felt hat like a tower. Their breastplate is made of scales. The clothing of the commanders is triple trousers and a double sleeved chiton as far as the knees, with the undergarment white and the upper brighdy colored. In summer they wear a purple or violetcolored himation and in winter a brightly colored one. Their tiaras are similar to those of the Magoi, and they wear a deep double shoe. Most of the men have a double chiton reaching as far as the middle of the leg, and a strip around the head, and each has a bow and sling. |
Kossaians | are mostly archers like the neighboring mountaineers and are always foraging, for they have a territory that is small and poor, so by necessity they live on others and by necessity are strong and all warriors. | kosay | there is a legendary man named Kosay in Kyrgyz legends |
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Massabatik | a place name | Basa-batık | bas-: to step, to press, batık: swamp |
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Sousis | a toponym | Susız | without water, dry land |
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Thapsakos
| a toponym | tapığsak | servant | tap-: to serve; to worship |
Apameia (page 702) | a city name in Syria | apa: father | +m: possessive suffix 1. person singular | apam: my father |
Orthagoras | a tyrant who lived in 7th C BC | orta: the middle | goru: to protect | the protected middle: the middle of the empire > the king |
Dorakta | island - coast of Carmania | otruk/otrak | island |
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choinikides (page 778)
| cavity; used by Strabo for tidal rock cavities in the vicinity of Sinope.
| kovuk/koğuk | cavity |
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