Qarluq: differenze tra le versioni

 

The most ancient reference to the etymology of the Karluk name is recorded in the Chinese dynastic history Tang-shu, which names Karluks as Ko-lo-lu and traces the name to the word Karlik (Turkic "snow piles"). Kar is "snow", as in the name of the Kar Sea. N. Aristov noted the river Kerlyk, a tributary of the river Charysh, proposing the tribal name originating from the toponym with a Turkic meaning "wild millet" [19]. A reverse is equally possible, the toponyms named after an ethnonym of the native people. Another version cites the homonym of the Karluk valley in Altai. The derivation of Karluk from Kara (Turkic "Great", "Western", "black") is considered to be philologically impossible, and incompatible with the well documented Arabic form of the ethnonym "Halluh".