Pre-Greek-on-Crete-and-its-parallels-to-Turkic

 

Pre-Greek Speech on Crete. Evidence for pre-greek speech on Crete from Greek alphabetic sources

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Brown, R. A.

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Today I have finished the work with searching the book above for the Türkic word.

And I am not unsuccessful.

Here are my findings:

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Cretan place name	info	Türkic word	info	other info
Allaria	a city whose cite is unknown	alar-	be dazzled	< al-, ala-
Aptara	a city to the south of Kolpos Soudas	apa: mother/father	+t: Plural suffix	ara: a place between. Mr. Brown notices that the similar names Patara, Pttara and Aptara are all Pre-Greek.
Araden	a city in the south	ara	a place in between	arıt-: to clean, ARITAN?
Batheia	Place near Kadonia	bat-	to dive, to enter, to go down	Brown says „derived from βαθυς“ meaning profound, deep
Diktunnaion	from the name of Cretan goddess DIKTUNNA	tik-/dik: 1 to plant vertically 2 vertical	ana: mother
iardanos	a river whose identification is unknown	yar	a steep slope on the edge of a river, a cliff	OR yar ~ yer?; yartan: part, half, piece, portion
Inachorion	a town	inak	a Türkic name / title that we know since 9th C. Inak et-Türki A Khazarian Türk slave by the Abbasid Arabs (enslaved in ca. 815)	Inachos is the river of the valley
Kantanos	a city in the south	kantan	from where	OR kan-: to get sated. > kantur-: to let somebody be sated (Suya kanmak is modern Türkic and means to drink enough)
Kara	a village near Kantanos	kara	black; holy; great	etymology
Koite	an island	koytu/kuytu	a deserted, quiet, inconspicuous place	kud-: to pour, to pour our (water) > Kudug: well
Korion	a village near the Lake Koresia	korıġ	reserve, protected area	<korı- to protect
Kuthera	an island of Crete	kut: luck, divine mercy, happiness	er: men	or kut-yer (place); Brown notices: The name is cognate with Kutheros, a deme in Attika.
Korukos	name of peninsular on west of the Gulf of Kisamos	kurug-luk: bow-case, quiver		OR <korı- to protect. Brown notices Greek κώρυκος = leather sack, punch-bag and doesn’t show its similarity to Türkic Kurug-luk
Lipara	name of place near Κυδωνία,	ara	a place in between
Lisos (also Lissa, Lissos)	city and harbor on south coast near the modern village of Aikyrkós.	ılı- to get warm	su: water	il: state; home
Minoa	Minoan	bing/ming	thousand
Oreia	name of a region	orı	valley, pit, sinkhole	OR or: a higher place
Pergamon	a small city to the west of Κυδωνία, The name is of pre-Greek origin, cf. Πέργαμον in Mysia; in Epeiros; and Πέργαµος/Πέργαµον, the citadel of Troy. It is derived from the root purg-~perg- (stronghold)	berk	mighty, strong, sturdy, solid (these are parallel to „stronghold“.	Chuvash: parga
Polichna	icty south of Κυδωνία	bölük: divided; a art (of something)		see Wallach (probably from Turkic Bölük)
Tarra	city on the south coast near the modern village of Ayia Rouméli.	tarıġ	all kinds of crops, grains	iThe name is found also in Lydia
Khersonesos	a locality named by Ptolemaios	karşı: opposite	su: water
Aksos Αξος	city on the northern foothills of Psilorítis	Aksu	White water
Arkesion	name given to the cave of Zeus on Mount Ida	arka	back, backing
Ida	a mountain	daw/dau/tau	mountain	idi: master, owner
Aetoa αητώα	he name of the larger of two islands south of Ψυχήιον, and west of Μάταλα	ay: moon	? toġ-: to rise (of moon/sun)
Soulia, Σουλία; Sulia	Harbour town of Σύβριτα, on the site of the modern Ayla Galini.	su/suw/sub: water	+lV: suffix with the meaning „with“	Suwlag: in Uyghur we see theis wird meaning trough (German Pferdetränke)…. Brown notices further: The name is not Greek. Fick compares the name to Συλοσών in Samos, Σύλλειον in Pamphylia, and the Συλίονες in Illyria
Subrita Σύβριτα (The name is also recorded as: Σούβριτα, Σύβριτος, Σούβριτος, Σίβρυτος, Σέβυρτος.)	city southwest of ᾿Ελεύϑερνα, near the modern village of Thrönos	su/suw/sub: water
᾿Αμνισός  Amnisos	river, now called the Karterós, and also small harbour town at its mouth	su/suw/sub: water
Axápva Acharna	village, now known as Arkhánes, on the eastern foothills of mount Juktas	ak-: to flow	ak- as a verb could be used in military jargon meaning sth like sneak attack	Brown admits: For the naming of a place from a fish name, cf. Astale  in West-Central Crete. Admittedly it seems a little strange in the case of  Acharya as the village was some way inland. One is reminded also of the Attic deme.
Γόρτυν/Γόρτυς Gortun	city in central Crete, at a later date the administrative centre of the Roman province of Crete.	kur-:	to erect (a building), to establish	like in Kurgan OR KORI-: to protect
*’Epov Eron	a name, possibly in the Γόρτυν area	er: soldier, man	on: 10	known only from its ethnicon Ερώνιοι
Καρνησσόπολις Karnessopolis / Karnassos	according to Hesykhios another name for Λύττος	su: water
κεσχορα	name of an area near Γόρτυν.	or-: a higher place	OR ara: place in between
Κνωσός/Κνωσσός	a famous city on Crete	su: water		the Non-Greek suffix +ινθος could be Turkic, too, meaning „there“ like -sso, meaning water, that we see by many rivers. ………But Furnée suggests rather a connexion European origin. with Nesite tapar- ‘to reign, rule', Hattic and Palaic tabáinas; Nesite labarna- ‘ruler, sovereign' and that λαβύρινδος is to be understood as "King's house' rather 161 than 'House of the Double-Axe———- TAPAR could mean the worshipper and +suffix ntha could mean „there where the people worship“
Πύρανϑος Puranthos	small city in the area of Γόρτυν	burçak: bean	OR bur-: to smell nicely, +anta > Buranta: where it smells nicely	For the first elements of this name, cf. πυρος -oπυρος, a word of pre-Greek origin meaning "wheat"
Τύλισος	city near the modern village of Tylisos,which still preserves the ancient name.	tolu: full	tolı: hail	su: wasser
καλολακκα Kalolakka	Locality named in treaties	kalı	place to stay
Barse	meaning unknown	bars	leopard
Akel-	found in river names	Akeles, Acheles, Acheloos	akığ/akığlı	flowing, current/that that is flowing
Berekunthos Βερέκυνδος	meaning unknown	berk	strong
δίβαν/δίφαν diban/diphan	snake			there are 3 Türkish words for snake YILAn, SARGAN; EVREN and all end with +en/+an (maybe Dragon, too?)
ὄδρυν	Mountain in Thessaly	otru	middle, front, against	possibly also occurs in Mycenaean o-du-ru-we =«—pre-Greek *odru--*othru-.)
Etymology	Kelime Kökeni	Köken	Etymologie

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(A small note: Pre-Greek on Crete was not Semitic and not Indo-European. What is left on this area? Right: Türkic).

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Uzunbacak Adem 

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Link for the book: https://archive.org/details/pre-greek_speech_on_crete/mode/1up?q=barse