Travels into Turkey: Containing the most accurate account of the Turks, and neighbouring nations, their manners, customs, religion, superstition, policy, riches, coins, &c.Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de
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Travels into Turkey: Containing the most accurate account of the Turks, and neighbouring nations, their manners, customs, religion, superstition, policy, riches, coins, &c.
Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de
Turkey -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Jel, _Life, or Health_.
Jelisch, _alive, or well_.
Jeluburt, _let it be well_.
Marzus, _Marriage_.
Schuos, _a Spouse_.
Baar, _a Boy_.
Ael, _a Stone_.
Menus, _Flesh_.
Rintsch, _a Mountain_.
Fers, _a Man_.
Statz, _the Earth_.
Ada, _an Egg_.
Ano, _an Hen_.
Telich, _a Fool_.
Stap, _a Goat_.
Gadeltha, _Beautiful_.
Atochta, _Evil_.
Wichtgata, _White_.
Mycha, _a Sword_.
Lista, _a little_.
Schedit, _Light_.
Borrotsch, _the Will_.
Cadariou, _a Soldier_.
Kilemschkop, _drink up your Cup_.
Tzo Warthata, _as thou hast done_.
Jes Varthata, _he did it_.
Ich malthata, _I say_.
When he was desired to number, he said thus, _Ita, tua, tria, fyder,
fyuf, seis, sevene_, just as we _Flemmings_; for you _Brabanters_, who
speak _German-like_, do highly value your selves, and laugh at us, as
if we pronounced _Seven_ more coarsely: He went on reckoning _Athe,
nyne, thiine, thiinita, thiinetua, thiinetria_, &c. _Twenty_ he called
_Stega_, Thirty _Treithyen_, Forty _Furdeithien_, an Hundred _Sada_, a
Thousand _Hazer_. He also sung us a Song in that Language, which began
thus:
_Wara wara ingdolou:_
_Scu te gira Galizu._
_Hæmisclep dorbiza ea._
Whether these People be _Goths_ or _Saxons_, I cannot tell; If _Saxons_,
then, I suppose, they were transplanted thither in the time of _Charles_
the Great, who dispersed that Nation into many remote Countries, as
appears by the Cities of _Transilvania_, which to this day are inhabited
by _Saxons_; and possibly he might transplant the rest of the Nation
as far as _Tauric Chersonese_, where they still retain the Christian
Religion, though surrounded by the Enemies of it: But if they are
_Goths_, then I judge they chose their Inhabitants there next to the
_Getes_, and perhaps most of that Tract of Land between the _Gothick_
Isle and _Procopia_, (as now ’tis called) was heretofore inhabited by
_Goths_. Hence we read of the Names of sundry _Goths_, as _West-Goths_,
and _East_ or _Ostro-Goths_, who over-ran the World with their Victory,
and were the great Seminary of Multitudes of Barbarians. This is all I
could hear of these _Procopiensians_ concerning the _Tauric Chersonese_.
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