Andreas Johansson cazdy:
> Cool. I'm going to have some similar loaning going on in some conlang or
other.
Yep. A posteriori conlanging widens your mindframes...
> While at it, I'm told that the Czarist practice of calling the Kazakhs
"Kirgiz"
> was due to a feeling that _Kazax_ sounded to much like "Cossack" (the Russian
> version of which I can't for the moment recall - "kozak" [k6'zak]?). Is this
> true?
Russian word is |kazak| [kV"zak]. But I don't think the practice was because of
Czars. Those nomadic tribes used to call themselves different names, and |qazaq|
just meant "freeman". Kazakh used to call themselves |qyrGyz|, and Kyrgyzs -
|qara qyrGyz| "black Q." They felt to certain extent as if they belonged to
different clans/tribes of one ethnic group/people till the Soviet times...
Divide et impera.
~~~~~~Yitzik~~~~~~