Strabo-words-with-a-possible-Turkic-etymology-part-II

 

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A list of words that could have a Türkic etymology in Strabo's Geography:

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Strabon'un Coğrafya'sında Türk kökenli olabilecek sözcüklerin listesi:

by Uzunbacak Adem!

Original word

meaning

Türkic word

meaning

other info

Brigians	a Thracian people, some of whom crossed over into Asia and changed their name to Phrygians	obrık	hole, hollow; deeper layer	page 326, 14a
Ouranopolis	(acc. to Wiki) means sky-city	orun:	thron, a higher place	balık: city
Akanthos	a city	akıntı	flowing	ak-: to flow
Characoma	The island of Samothrake lies off it, as well as Imbros, which is not far from it.	kara: black	kum: sand	there are bazalt rests (bazalt is black) on the shore
Samothrake	an island	otruk	island
Kabeiroi	gods honored on Samothrake (big gods)	kabar-	to get bigger
Korybantians	were the armed and crested dancers who worshipped the Phrygiangoddess Cybele with drumming and dancing. They are also called the Kurbantes in Phrygia.	koru- : protect	bant-: to add, to tie,	i have already written a blog about that issue
Pamisos	a river	su	water	page 360
Tyrtaios	a poet	türt/tört: 4	ay: moon	tar-tay?, Manas Legend tells about a soldier called Törtay
Temenion/Temenos	Toponym/Name	temen	big needle
Proïapsai, iapsai, and ipsesth	…indicate a type of destruction or damage: "now he is making an attempt, but soon he will oppress [ipsetai] the sons of the Achaians" [Iliad 2.193], "afflict [iapsei] her fair complexion" [Odyssey 2.376], "sent away [protapsen] to Had	Proto-Turkic: *jAb-	1 bad, coarse, wicked 2 to become bad, weak 3 heavy, difficult, severe 4 tasteless, insipid	yabiz/yavuz: bad, evil; yablak: bad, evil
myrmekes (μύρμηξ)	ant	qumursɣa	ant
Krokyleia	an Island	korku	fear	-lu suffix? meaning with, or el, meaning the place
Othryades	a commander	otru/otruğ; ata: the father, the chief	island-father	otru/otra/orta: the middle (of the army), the chieftain?
Kynouria	a toponym	kongur	red-brown, dark-brown	a name for the color of a horse
Orneai	a toponym	orun	higher place, throne	orman: forest
Kenchreai	a toponym	kenç	young, child	kenç-yer: the fresh place, the new place; er: man, soldier
Akte/Aktike	older versions of the peninsula Attika	ak-: to flow	akıtık: a water (liquid) that was made to flow
Peloponnesos	peninsula	balapan/balaban	young animal; falcon + su: water;	balaban/balapan: large, dick
Kephissos	river	su: water
Parnassos	mountain	su: water
Mykalessos	A town	su: water
Erginos	tyrann of Orchomenus	ergin	e rank
Eteokles	one of those who reigned at Orchomenos,	ete/ata: father	oglu: son
Korax	mountain	KIRAK	end of sth,	KIR-: to break
Kirphis	a precipitous mountain	kirpi	hedgehog
Kirrha	a city near Kirphis	kır: 1 isolated mountain 2 mountain top, mountain ridge 3 steppe, desert, level ground 4 edge
Aitolians	barbaric or semi-barbaric people	Ay: moon, tolu: full	aytolu: full-moon	Aytolu could easily be a Türk name
Athamanians	A people	ata: father	-man: emphasizing suffix	Ataman: the respectable father; there are other Atamans in the world history like Hetmans, Otaman, the term was the official title of the supreme military commanders of the Cossack armies.
Thermopylai	["Hot Gates"], because there are hot waters nearby that are honored and sacred to Herakles.	bulag/bulak	water spring
Kallidromon	a mountain name	kalı-: to rise; to jump up	dur-: to stand	standing high? Look at the Türkish word KALDIRIM. Nisanyan and Stachowski derived it from Greek Kalos Dromos „nice way“. This word could be similar.
Ormenion Ὀρμένιον	A town name	or	place, dwelling place	page 429
Kyme	a town at shore	kum	sand	there were 2 of them, one in Greece, one in Anatolia
Boos Aule	a cave name, meaning cow stall	boa: bull	ağıl: cattle pen	buğra: male camel, buğu: female camel
Gargasousos	a person name	karga	raven	kargasız: who has not raven; korkusuz: without fear
Alyzeus	son of Ikarios	alız	weak, undersized	the word has these meanings, too: cunning, sneaky and greedy
Epeiros	Maniland	epe: mother	yer: land	Motherland?, Mother’s land? see Epiros: was a member of the Theban royal family as the daughter of princess Agave and Echion, one of the Spartoi. She was the sister of Pentheus, successor of King Cadmus of Thebes.
Atabyris	a toponym derived from the epithet of Zeus; Atabyris was a cultic epithet of the god Zeus from Greek mythology, under which he was probably worshipped in the form of a bull.[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atabyrius	ata: father	bur/buğur	camel stallion; stud male animal
Otos the Kuyllenian	a person name	uduz-/oduz-	to command	kul/köle: servant
Saians/Saii	A Thracian tribe	Say	rocky, stony area	Saians lived on Thassos (Taşoz in Türkish) and gave its name because the island Thassos is rocky. See my blog about them)
Doulichion/Dolicha	an island	dolu: hail; dol-: to get full
Haimon	a male name	ayman	a name	maybe related to ay: moon or there is a verb ayman- meaning to fear.
Oxylos	son of Haimon	OK-: arrow	oksul: like an arrow	or sharp as an arrow
Althaia	a female person who died through fire	al: red	yal-: to burn > alav: flame
Kouretians/Kouretika	a people	kur: belt	Kurtak: a kind of jacket	Kurtak: a male name; OR koru-: to protect
Bakchic (Bakhus)	with martial dances, an uproar, noise, cymbals, drums, and arms, as well as the flute and cries, causing fear through their sacred rites in the manner of religious servants.	bak-: to watch	BAKSI: shaman	it is accepted that the word BAKSI derived from Chinese 博士, but when was it? maybe so early like the Türks moved to Europe under the name Thracians
Berekyntian	A Thracian tribe	berkin	strong	<berk (Proto-Türkic) : strong
Euhoi Saboi	a religious call	ay-: to round	sab-: so say	dance in a round form and call
Berekyntian	a kind of flute (Berekyntian a place or a land name, a people’s name originally? From Phrygian?	Birge	whip, bamboo stick	biriki: came together (from a double flutes?)
Phrygian	a great peoples	birig/birigi/birik/biriki	to gather, to join, to become one	„Etymology of Phrygian“
Magadis	an instrument	baglama	an instrument with strings	<bag-:
Akousilaos the Argive	a historian	ak-: to flow	+sıl: a suffix, showing similarity	akı-sıl: like a river
Kelmis	one of the Idahoan DACTYLS	kelmiş	s/he who came	s/he who comes like gelin: bride (she who comes to house of the man). + Kermis and Damnameneus were the first to discover iron in Cyprus
Erineos, Boion, and Kytinion	Dorian settlements	Erin, Boyın, Kutın	all could be Türkic names	Er: man, yer: land; Boyun: neck ( geographical neck?); Kut: holy (+in: possessive suffix) 10.4.2­8
Knossos	A settlement on Crete	Kün-özü	Day-source (water source)	-sso: is not a Greek suffix. Kum-özü?or Kün: people?
Kairatos	the old name of Knossos	Kairat	name of a village in Kyrgyzstan, and a male name in Türkic world
Dorylaos	a male name	doru/duru	pure, clean	?durul-: to calm down
Gortyna	a city	Korut/gorut	to let defend < koru-: to keep safe	Homer says "high­walled Gortyna" [Iliad 2.646, altered] ­ but later it lost its walls from the foundations and has remained unwalled for all time.
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Achaians	Homer says Achaians were Greeks	akay: white moon	akın-: to raid, <ak-: to flow, to proved (of army).	Beekes sproposed that it originated in a Pre-Greekform*Akaywa-. (wiki)
Zygians	a people (half-nomad) who lived NorthEast Black See coast	chigay/chigan	poor
Kerketians	a people	kerki	1 adze, mattock 2 razor	+t: plural suffix
Kolchis	a region in North Caucausia	köl	lake, sea	kölçi: he who has/runs a lake (Kolchians)
Pantikapaion	a Scythian city	kap-: to close	kap: door gate	look at its geo position to understand the word kap- (to close) > Hungarian kapu: gate
Korokondame (Coracanda)	a village on Caucasia	kara - kant?	Black city?	because of charcoal mines there? Kand is a Sogdian word for city. OR kon-: to settle down
Maioten Μαιῶται	Neigbors of the Scythians as who lived partly on fish and partly from agriculture but were as warlike as their nomadic neighbors	Bay	rich	bayıt-: to make rich
Sindi (Sindoi)	were an ancient Scythian people who primarily lived in western Ciscaucasia. A portion of the Sindi also lived in Central Europe	sındı sındu	scissors
Arrechi (Greek: Ἀρρηχοί	were an ancient tribe of the Maeotae,	arı	bee
Apatouros	epithet of Aphrodite	apa	mother, elder sister, aunt
Sarapana	strong position on the road that led from Colchis to Iberia, had a fortress	sarp	difficult (sarp is still being used for the places hard to climb)
Page 482: the linen industry is often talked about, for it was exponed to foreign places, and some rely on this who wish to show a kinship between the Kolchians and Egyptians.				a Hyksos relation? Hyksos who came from the north….
Phtheirophagians ["Lice Eaters"]	a people, who have taken their name because of their squalor and filth	bit	louse	ye: to eat : Bit-yeyir?; Chuvash: piyta: bit
Moschikian	A mountain name/Caucasian	boşuk	angry, furious	Yunus emre: buşu: anger
Chamaikoitians	a people; "Those Who Sleep on the Ground"	kamağ	all, all together, whole
Troglodytes	["Cave Dwellers"] here, who live in holes because of the cold, and among them there is a lack of barley	tarıġ	all kinds of crops, grains	<tarı- “to sow crops, to scatter seeds”
Abeakos	king of the Sirakians at the time that Pharnakes [II] held the Bosporos, sent 20,000 horsemen	aba aka	elder father (the oldest in community)	Yakutia abgab: the oldest in the tribe, great uncle, father's elder brother
Achardaios	a river in Caucasian region	akar-	that that flows
Anariakians / Aniarakians	a people	yarak	weapon	yara-: to be useful
Ouitians (Ouitioi)	a people	uy-	to be allied	uyut: allies (+t suffix makes plural); uj-: to be able, capable (Orkh/Uygh u-)
Kadousians	a people	kadış	leather belt	kadu-: 1 to stick in 2 sting 3 to sew
Oxos and Ochos	The rivers flowing through Hyrkania	Ochos: Ögüz (Spring)	Oxos: Aksu (white water)
Omanos	a deity	oman/uman	Chuvash word for worm (snake?)
Anadates	a deity	ana	mother
Sagaris	a weapon Massagetians use	çakar	a posssible word that means that that clashes	<çak-: to clash, -Vr the suffix making verbs to nouns
Seleukos Kallinikos	was a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, who reigned from 246 BC to 225 BC	kalın	thick, stiff
Attasians	a people belonging to Massagetians	ata: father	ataç: a boy resembling his father	Ata oglı ataç togar - DLT
Apassiakians	a people	apası ak	lit. „they whose father is white„	ak: (maybe) noble; IE linguists propose APA-SAKA (WATER SAKA) SIAKIA = SAKA?
Tapyrians	a nomadic people	tapır-	to jump	OR probably tap-: to serve, to worship
Derbikians	a people	der-bek	der-: “to gather, to bring together”, beg: chieftain	ter: sweat
Ortospana	three principal roads leading through Bactriana met at this place;	orta/ortu	middle	ban-: to tie. Like in Samotrake, Orthokorybantians (yukarıdaki 2 sözcük de var bunda), Orthagoria, Romalı oymak Ortalus adlarında bu 'orta' bulunur.
Zariaspa	a city in Bactria	sarı: yellow, golden	sıp: 2-year-old colt; donkey colt	wiki: An earlier name for Balkh or a term for part of the city was Zariaspa (Ancient Greek: Ζαρίασπα), which may derive from the important Zoroastrian fire temple Azar-i-Asp or from a Median name *Ζaryāspa- meaning "having gold-coloured horses“. AND NOW there is a horse breed called Akal-Teke and it is a Türkish breed, it has golden hair
Darapsa	a city in Bactria	dar: narrow; raft	ap-: to spring	su: water
Kariatai	a city in Bactria, Alexander razed it	kar: snow	tai: mountain	See the name of the Bactrian city Belh/Balch: Altaic words like *bẹ̄l(k), Mongolian: *belkeɣü, Tungus-Manchu: *belge(geographical form)
Imaion	a Mountain that adjoins the Indian Sea	UMAY	Goddess of Birth
Tamaron	A river in Asia	tamar	vein
Siginni	A Median? tribe that settled in Hungary 8th C BC.	SIGIN/SIGUN	1 deer, male maral 2 large bovine
Kyrtians	a tribe; According to Garnik Asatrian, Cyrtians were a collection of indigenous, non-Iranian tribes who only shared a nomadic lifestyle.[4]	ogurt-? many ogurs (many tribes?)	Gurt? wolf	Kurut? cheese;]
Basoropaida	a region probably east of Lake Van	Basarapa	a Turkish ruler the of the Cuman dynasty Basarab	Basar: ruler, apa: father
Kalachene	a region near Nimrod	kala-	to heap up, pile up	ka-: to stay
Temple of Baris		Baris	Leopard

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