Toward Buryat-Yakut Ethnic Connections:
İgidäi and Eχirid. Addendum: Ikirezh(ъ), Itirit

B. Z. Nanzatov; V. V. Tishin

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Toward Buryat-Yakut Ethnic Connections: İgidäi and Eχirid. Addendum: Ikirezh(ъ), Itirit

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Author(s)

B. Z. Nanzatov, V. V. Tishin

Abstract

The article presented to be a continuation of the study of the Buryat ethnonym Eχirid ~ Eχired (to be Ekhirit in Russian spelling) published by its authors earlier. That result of previous analysis was provided the linguistic argument to confirm the position, previously expressed by colleagues without any argumentation, that the ethnonym İgidäi reflected in the name of political and then administrative unit (nasleg) among the Yakuts should be considered as a form related to the Buryat ethnonym Eχired < Ekired. At the same time earlier the authors of the article presented had proposed that the spelling ikirezh(ъ) found in Russian documents of the 17th century reflected the form of the original Eχirid ~ Eχired in the genitive case. It should be understood as the form with the suffix +i known in the Ekhirit-Bulagat dialects of Buryat language, determined the palatalization and further affricatization of the preceding consonant -d: [d] > *[ɟ] > [dʑ]. Now an attraction of additional source materials allows one to reinforce an argument for that assumption. It may be the most interesting the possibility of defining the last consonant as palatalized in a typologically close example that is the mention of the ethnonym “Ikinyazhskiy” or “Ikinyatskiy” in Russian spelling in the same documents to reflect the original form *ikinädʹ(i). In the article presented it is also considered the tribal name “Itiritskiy (rod)” attested in Russian spelling in the 1897 census among the Yakut population. Following the hypothesis about the connection of this name with the Buryat ethnonym Eχirid ~ Eχired, the authors propose to interpret the Russian spelling “Itiritskiy” mentioned as the reflecting an original form the emergence of which was a result of the phonetic change *ikired > *itʹired due to palatalization of the original [k] > [tʹ] in a language close to Buryat type. The results of the study not only allow one to detail information about the Buryat-Yakut historical contacts, but also supplement information about the historical phonetics of the Buryat language.

About the Authors

Nanzatov Bair Zoriktoevich, Candidate of Sciences (History), Senior Researcher, Department of History, Ethnology and Sociology, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies SB RAS; 6, Sakhyanova st., Ulan-Ude, 670047, Russian Federation, e-mail: nanzatov@yandex.ru

Tishin Vladimir Vladimirovich, Candidate of Sciences (History), Senior Researcher, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies SB RAS; 6, Sakhyanova st., Ulan-Ude, 670047, Russian Federation, e-mail: tihij-511@mail.ru

For citation

Nanzatov B. Z., Tishin V. V. Toward Buryat-Yakut Ethnic Connections: İgidäi and Eχirid. Addendum: Ikirezh(ъ), Itirit. Bulletin of the Irkutsk State University. Geoarchaeology, Ethnology, and Anthropology Series. 2022, Vol. 40, pp. 52–56. https://doi.org/10.26516/2227-2380.2022.40.52 (in Russ.)

Keywords

ethnic history, ethnonym, onomastics, Turkic and Mongolic peoples, Yakuts, Buryats.

UDC

39(571.54+571.56)+ 811.512

DOI

https://doi.org/10.26516/2227-2380.2022.40.52

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