Herodotus-Troglodytae-versus-Turkic-Turuglu

 

Pic: wikipedia 

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Troglodytae 

Herodotus mentions this people for the first time. This word/name should mean cave-goers.

Wiktionary tells about its etymology "...from τρώγλη (trṓglē, “hole”) +‎ δύω (dúō, “I get into”)."

If we look at the Greek word τρώγλη, we see that this word comes from τρώγω (trṓgō, “I bite, I eat”) (through the concept of an animal chewing a hole).

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What a fantastic imagination. (By the way according to Beekes 

τρώγω is a Pre-Greek word, that means a Non-Greek word).

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I have a better proposal:

Türkic turug meaning simply Shelter in the mountains, shelter, a sheltered place in the mountains. Kaşgarlı Mahmut mentions this word in his dictionary, Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk (one of the first dictionaries in the world, even the first one?).

Old Türkic suffix +lV makes a noun from a noun with a possessive meaning.

> Turug+lu means the people who have a shelter in a mountain.

For the second part of the word -δύω- I have no proposal, I let it be Greek. 

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If I think further I can propose that this African people took their name from the Türks around and the Greeks took this name from the Türks and changed it a little. 

That could mean that the Türks existed in that part of the world in those times (Africa - 5th C BC).

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Uzunbacak Adem

Links: 

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B4%CF%8D%CF%89#Ancient_Greek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troglodytae

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troglodyten

https://dergiler.akademikyorum.com/Makaleler/760834239_4-%20Nadira%20(83-%2099).pdf

https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/turug