Manos (Kyrgyzstan epic poem); Kyrgyzstan food

[Gregory {Greg} Downing]

At 02:20 PM 5/10/2001 -0500, Mark Odegard <markodegard at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>The OED is not and has never been intended to be useful as a gazetteer.
>>The reason _Hungary_ is included is that we have evidence for it as
>>an attributive (chiefly in _Hungary water_), and not that we think it's
>>more worthy than Latvia or Lithuania. If we had evidence for, say,
>>_Latvia hat_ we would put it in.
>>
>>Jesse Sheidlower
>>OED
>
>But certainly, OED covers Kirgiz Rug, does it not?
>

The headword in OED2 is Kirghiz (first citation dated 1652), with several
variant forms attested. Rugs are mentioned.


Greg Downing, at greg.downing at nyu.edu or gd2 at nyu.edu