Re: USAGE: Words for "boredom"

BP Jonsson wrote:
>At 17:12 2002-06-18 +0000, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
>>Speaking of Kaghanates, I seem to've run across an unreasonable number of
>>versions of this title. Even assuming that g~gh and k~q variation is
>>merely
>>orthographical, I've seen at least three; _qaghan_, _khaqan_ and
>>_khakhan_.
>>Do these represent different Turkic languages? If so, what'd be the
>>ancestral form?
>
>The classical Mongolian form is usually transliterated as _qa¥an_, where ¥
>should properly be a lower-case Greek gamma.  The pronunciation is
>approximately ['xAGAn], which becomes [xA:n] in modern Mongolian.
Is the later the same as "khan"?

                                                     Andreas

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