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2.
Sagabor
,
Sagaavar
11
is a Dørvød clan. It comes from the name of the Iranian Sakas
–bor
(cf. above). The ethnonym Saka survives also in the name of the Yakut and the
Sagay
peoples in Khakasia, in Altay and in Tuva.
12
The fact that this formans, documented in a
Khotan Saka ethnonym, occurs in Sagabor in the same geographic area as the ethnonym
Sagay, corroborates the suggestion that Sagay continues the name of the Sakas.
3.
Hürüüd, Kürdeehen
is the name of a Dørvød group,
13
in which the first part of the
ethnonym Küre(-birä) can be recognized, after discovering that
–birä
is a formans. They live
among the Dørvød aristocracy as well as in Møst sum in the Altai, and under the name
Hürd
,
Hürte
among the Buriats.
14
Their origin is explained in a legend from Hovd aymag,
Dørgøn, Mjangad sum as follows: two brothers,
Kürdeš
and
Mongoldaš
came to the country
as poor refugees.
Mongoldaš
joined the Bayids,
Kürdeš
the Dørvøds. Their descendants are
generally thought to be of foreign origin.
15
The brothers have ethnic names, formed by the
Turkic lexeme
–daš
, which develops names of persons belonging to the entity denoted by
the base noun,
16
i.e. Kürdeš
,
the immigrant was a member of the Küre- clan.
4.
Köčiköldök
s live in Uvs aymag, Tarjalan sum.
17
The name occurs as
Höčgeld
and
Höčgöldög
as well.
18
The exact form of the ethnonym is problematic. Visiting Tarjalan sum
in 1971, I heard from my Khoton informants
Hoč
,
Hočheldeg
and
Höčgeldeg
, without being
able to decide the “right” form.
19
I understood later that this is a composite word, in which
the velar vowel in the first part must have been changed under the influence of the second,
11
Ølzij, Ž.:
Øvør Mongolyn Ørtøø Zasah Orny zarim ündêstên, jastny garal üüsêl, zan zanšil
. Ulaanbaatar 1990, p.
30 [The origin and the traditions of some clans and minorities in the Autonom Region of Inner Mongolia]; Cêrêl,
B.:
Dørvøn ojrat ba ojrdyn holboond bagtah ündêstên jastnuudyn ugsaa tüühijn zarim asuudal.
Uvs – Ulaanbaatar
1997, p. 749 [Some problems connected to the origin of the four Oirats and clans incorporated in the Oirat
federacy].
12
IH p. 111. There were other Central Asian groups among the Buriats as well: Sartuuls immigrated from the South
around 1630 (Têrbiš:
Sêlêngijn…
2000/120).
According to the tax list, 15,6%, in 1735 10,7% of the tributary
families was Sartuuls among the Selenge Buriats between 1681-1720 (Hanharaev, V. S.:
Burjaty v XVII-XVIII vv.:
demografičeskaja istorija i êtničeskie processy
. Ulan-Udê 2000, pp. 90-91).
13
Ajuuš, C.: Dørvød. In:
MUUZ II
. 1996. p. 36.
14
Mênês, G.: Zahčin. In:
MUUZ II.
342-343; Batnasan:
Burjaad.
p. 15.
15
Ajuuš, C.:
Dørvød…
pp. 45-46.
16
Erdal, Marcel:
Old Turkic Word Formation. A Functional Approach to the Lexicon
I. Harrassowitz,
Wiesbaden
1991, pp. 119-120; Batnasan, G. (Bajad. In:
MUUZ II
. p. :218) suggested that the name of the Hürd group among
the Bayids is connected to the Kurd people, because the mountain called
Kurduudyg
belonged to them. This is not
acceptable. The first part of the toponym is identical with the groups name if their vowels changed from palatals to
velars under the influence of the end of the toponym,
which is clearly Turkic
dag
“mountain”.
17
Rinčên, B.:
Mongol Ard Ulsyn ugsaatny sudlal, hêlnij šinžlêlijn atlas.
ŠUA, Ulaanbaatar 1979, p. 71, map 77.
[Ethnographic and linguistic atlas of Mongolia].
18
Respectivly by Cêrêl, B.:
Dørvøn…
p. 207 and Šagdarsürên, C.: Mongolžson har’ ovgijn tuhaj têmdêglêl. In:
MS
VIII/19 (1971), p. 268 [Note about the Mongolized foreign clans].
19
Cf. Tatár, M.:
The Khotons…
pp. 2, 5. There, giving a detailed description of all
Košci
groups in Eurasia, I tried
to explain it from Turkic
kušču
“fowler, falconier”. This was a title in the royal entourage in the Mongol period, cf.
persons like
Ilčidej košči
,
Urtimur-košči
,
Bajtmiš-košči
,
Tašmengu-košči
(Rašid ad-Din:
Sbornik letopisej
IV.
Transl. by O. I.
Smirnova, Nauka, Moskva – Leningrad 1946, pp. 65, 108, 122, 167). Now I separate
Košči
groups
from the
Koššo
s and offer a different, in my point of view, better explanation.
Košči
was an old tribe, whose
warriors participated in the battles of Argun in 1284 (Rašid-ad-Din:
Sbornik…
IV. p. 106).