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Abstract:
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ancient Mongols were developing in one historical-cultural continuum with the Manchzhu and Koreans. The shift to nomadic life is associated with Indo-Iranians – -khu, -khor. This name passes on to Mongols and becomes the self-name. Mongols dunhu pass on the ethnonym to the ancestors of Koreans in the form of Kore – Kogure. The search for etymologies of assonant ethnonyms from different languages is rather hard and provokes futher questions, whose solving is often impossible within the framework of linguistics only. Thus etymological hypotheses appear during historical background reconstruction. This historical background involves interpreting related linguistic ties, broken by the force of history and time.... |