The Turkic and Eastern European background of the etymology of Hung. tábor (military camp)
The Turkic and Eastern European background of the etymology of Hung. tábor (military camp)
Author(s): Michał NémethSubject(s): Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: etymology; Hung. tábor ‘military camp’; Turkic dapkur ~ tapkur ‘troop’; Turkic in Hungarian; Hungarian in Turkic sources; Turkic historical linguistics; Mongolic historical linguistics;
Summary/Abstract: This article offers an etymological discussion of the relationship of the Hungarian word tábor ‘(military) camp’ and its cognates, present in a wide range of European and Asian languages, to Turkic (above all Chagatai and Ottoman) dapkur ~ tapkur ‘1. troop; 2. saddle girth; etc.’. The main reason as well as aim for revisiting the etymology of Hung. tábor is to prove that the claim that the first written occurrence of the Hung. word in appellative meaning dates back to 1383, is erroneous. In the present paper attempt is made to refute the latter assertion by thorough philological argumentation. This circumstance invalidates the arguments formerly put forward to weaken the word’s Czech etymology (< Cz. Tábor ‘Mount Tabor’).
Journal: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 67/2014
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 43-74
- Page Count: 32
- Language: English
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