hephthalite

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"From the mid-fifth to the mid-sixth century Central Asia was ruled by the Hephthalite tribes. There are many gaps in our knowledge of the origin of the Hephthalites and the formation of their state, the first difficulty being that they are given different names in the various sources."
"F. Altheim assumes a Turkic origin for the Hephthalites. In his own studies he affirms, that the Hephthalites were Turkic-speaking Altaic tribes. The ethnonym "Hephtal" is drawn from the Turkic root: yap, meaning to do, to make, plus a^([sic]) verbal-nominal suffixes t and l. The reconstructed word is yap-t-il, which means "creator, maker" ("Schaffender, Tatiger"). The language of the Hephthalites was Turkic and the presence of the Iranian words is explained by elements that penetrated the Hephthalites language from the subordinated Iranian-speaking population."
"2009, Barbara A. West, "Hephthalites", article in Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania, Infobase Publishing (Facts on File), page 276, The Hephthalites probably began their history as a nomadic people, moving across the Asian steppes when political, military, or social situations favored their movement."

Hypercorrect respelling of Ephthalite, with unetymological initial h-, from Latin Ephthalītēs, from Ancient Greek Ἐφθαλίτης (Ephthalítēs), from Bactrian Ηβοδαλο (Ēbodalo) + Ancient Greek -ίτης (-ítēs).

Hephthalites (plural) Ephthalite (alternative) Haital (alternative) Haithal (alternative) more Hephthalite (comparative) most Hephthalite (superlative)

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