From: "H.M.Hubey" <Mark.Hubey@montclair.edu>
Subject: Re: The Bulgars are Bulgars (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars)
Date: 20 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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Cluster User wrote:
> 
> >
> >TEGARCHUK - in the folk story "The bear and the TEGARCHUK". Unclear word.
> >
> >Compare to the Pamirian TEGAR ('a beam, a joist') [DE, 260] The story
> >itself evolves around some tree.
> >
> 
> ? bulghar < turkic teker (round object, wheel) + c,u"k (dim. suffix)

Maybe it was terekcuk (little tree).

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Mark
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