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Post by asiaticus on Aug 30, 2006 22:32:26 GMT 3
Good. An interesting book is also : W. South Coblin, A Handbook of Eastern Han Sound Glosses, 1983, by The Chinese University of Hongkong. There is another newer work by Baxter, but I don't own it. It is really baffling that eveyone of these authors has his lecture and different pronunciation of the same words, so we can not be certain, due to the difficulty of the material, what is the correct reading!
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Aug 31, 2006 11:52:12 GMT 3
So this forces us to use every suggestion for the pronounciations of Old Chinese. At least this is what I am going to do while writing some academic papers.
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Post by Boorchi Noyan on Sept 5, 2006 0:19:52 GMT 3
asiaticus I think you get me wrong. I try to say this: for example it is hardly believed that the great Hiungnu leader has the name ''Bagatur''. But it is ''Mao-tun'' in old chinese and ''Mo-du'' today (forgive me if mixing them). I just asked if angu arghu or sth else is like this or not? I mean it can be Orkhun in Turkic but arghu or sth. else in chinese...
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Sept 5, 2006 0:42:05 GMT 3
Anhou is the Chinese transcription and it has been suggested that it might be Arghu or Orqun. There can not be any words in Chinese in the form of Ar-
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Post by Saran on Nov 14, 2006 15:42:04 GMT 3
I dunnu about Orkhon, but Selenge is a Mongolian word meaning "A thing to swim in".
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Post by raapi on Nov 26, 2006 21:26:37 GMT 3
What's Selenge?
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Post by snafu on Nov 26, 2006 23:18:46 GMT 3
The Selenge river. One of Mongolia's major rivers.
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Post by mongolulus on Apr 5, 2009 19:36:07 GMT 3
in mongolian:
selenge=a place where you swim, the Swimming (seleh=to swim) orhon=a place where you enter or dive or go into (oroh=to enter) tuul=a place where you wade through the water (tuul=wade through the water) tes (major river in Uvs province)=a place where you endure the cold water (teseh=to endure, resist, especially in the sense of enduring cold water or cold weather)
but I'm not excluding the possibility of a turkic connection too.
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