Tshena - my Turco-Latin-Chinese hybrid conlang

accent marks are lacking in this post.  hopefully, that won't yet matter.

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..even if its just to say "quit while you're ahead".

Like the Uighurs to the north, the Tshena are a Turkic people living on the edge of
China. In many Tshenale yorts, they still tell tales, slightly mythologized or
embellished, that hark back to a great battle fought by the ancestors of the
Tshena; after that battle, they journeyed all the way to their present home,
where they settled. That battle corresponds to the Battle of Carrhe under the
leadership of Crassus.

Crassus [Roman]  = Krases [Tshena]

Tien Shen Mt. + Roma = Tshena

No hard /g/, only the soft Turkish /g/ remains.

/le/ means /all/, while /-le/ means /people/

divide ve han = divide and rule
('han'?)

alterin = alter ego = another self

egues Tshenalein = the Tshena cavalry
(or)
atler Tshenalein = the Tshena cavalry
(from 'Eques Romanus')

yort = yurt

clepsydra [Roman] = Klipsid [Tshena]...a waterclock

kuk [Kyrgyz] = khoh', khok' [Tshena]......a knot, a binding knot, a leather knot.
{in Cyrillic, KOK with a horizontal line through the O}.

regnat Tshenale = the people rule
(or)
regat Tshenale = the people rule

bal [Hebrew] = bal [Tshena].....lord, minor lord.
..lord.

'Tshena' likely was not the original name for this creole people, unless one posits the
existance of a pre-Avar & pre-Gokturk expansion of Turkic peoples from the Tien
Shen Mt.s.

Some of the survivors of Crassus' army had been Hebrews, and they brought their
religion with them. Citing a God-given one-generation exemption on the
passes-through-the-matriline rule, their Judeism (Judiysn) survived better than
its travelling companion of Sol Invictus -- which lingers in Tshen art {a sun
disk surrounding a holy figure - such as the Buddha - or holy object}, and in
words for light and brightness.

There are (turns of speech?) in Tshena as well; such as /yortle/, denoting a person
who is content to never move around much or wander or explore; and /tezdudle/
{from /testudo/} denoting a person who is happiest on the march -- this is
closer to the word for /nomad/ and /nomadic/ than to the word for /mercenary/.

The /e/ in /decim/ is a rising tone, making the word mean /to remove/; had the /e/
been a falling tone, the word would have meant /to kill # of___/.

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