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The Turkic and Eastern European background of the etymology of Hung. tábor (military camp)

Németh, Michał (2014) The Turkic and Eastern European background of the etymology of Hung. tábor (military camp). Acta Orientalia, 67 (1). pp. 43-74. ISSN 0001-6446

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Abstract

This article offers an etymological discussion of the relationship of the Hungarian word tábor ‘(military) camp’ and its cognates, present in a wide range of European and Asian languages, to Turkic (above all Chagatai and Ottoman) dapkur ~ tapkur ‘1. troop; 2. saddle girth; etc.’. The main reason as well as aim for revisiting the etymology of Hung. tábor is to prove that the claim that the first written occurrence of the Hung. word in appellative meaning dates back to 1383, is erroneous. In the present paper attempt is made to refute the latter assertion by thorough philological argumentation. This circumstance invalidates the arguments formerly put forward to weaken the word’s Czech etymology (< Cz. Tábor ‘Mount Tabor’).

Item Type: Article
Subjects: D History General and Old World / történelem > D0 History (General) / történelem általában
P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PI Oriental languages and literatures / keleti nyelvek és irodalmak
Depositing User: xKatalin xBarta
Date Deposited: 05 Dec 2016 13:11
Last Modified: 05 Dec 2016 13:11
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/42845

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