Quoting Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>:
> On 1/11/07, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
> > I have a provisional name for Thag 3B: Tezenki
> [snip]
> > What do you think, though, of "Tezenki"? Does it have the right sound
> > for a language located vaguely
> > at the north-west shore of the Caspian Sea? Does it have any possibly
> > unfortunate meanings or
> > similarities?
>
> The first thing it brings to my mind is the Turkic word for "sea" or
> "ocean", which I think is something like "tengiz/deniz/genghiz" or the
> like.
_Deniz_ in modern Turkish.
Andreas