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ON MONGOLIC BELGE AND MENGGE ‘SIGN, MARK’
ON MONGOLIC BELGE AND MENGGE ‘SIGN, MARK’

Author(s): Béla Kempf
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Lexis, Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Turkic languages
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Altaic linguistics; etymology; Turko-Mongolic language relationship;

Summary/Abstract: In Mongolic, the words belge and mengge have practically the same meaning, cf. LM belge ‘sign mark, token, symptom, symbol; prognostic, omen’ and LM mengge ‘birthmark, mole; sign’. This paper aims to answer the question of whether these two words are etymologically related with each other or not, and also attempts to shed light on a question put forward by Gerhard Doerfer. In two of his works Doerfer (1992; 1993) suggested that there might be loanwords in Early Turkic taken from different Mongolic languages, but this idea has gone practically unnoticed in the Altaistic literature.

  • Issue Year: 65/2012
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 317-322
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English
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