[language] [Fwd: bez, bUz, burush]

[H. Mark Hubey]

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Subject: bez, bUz, burush
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 10:57:50 -0400
From: "H. Mark Hubey" <HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu>
To: NEA <NEAsianStudies at yahoogroups.com>

It is said that the change in Turkic languages goes from z > r because
of one word. The word is Common Turkic bez and Chuvash pir. These
allegedly
both come from Arabic bazz and ultimately from Greek byssos.

However, the word for wrinkling in Turkish is burush. I think this has
to be
taken into consideration, and I think that as in other such pairs such
as yUz/yUrU, and kOr/kOz, this is related to bUz. The word bez was
bOz in Kuman/Kipchak.

Ultimately, the root may go back to the Middle East, and might be of the
r-form, and could have gotten into Greek. These sound changes seem to
occur across a large geographical region.

What do others think?

--
M. Hubey

hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu
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