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fessor Golden notes that this name, like related forms such as Satïlmïsh „sold“,
hence not to be taken away by evil spirits, was probably atropaic in origin, and
cites much harsher atropaic names, e.g. a Cuman chief called Kotyan’ in Rus’, Kötöny
in Hungary < kötän „anus“; and see many more excremental and pejorative
names in Rásonyi, „The psychology and categories of name giving among the
Turkish peoples“, pp. 213–14.
25. SAW-TEGIN, eunuch commander of Alp Arslan’s and Malik Shah’s
(0usayn\, 30–1, tr. 27; Ibn al-Ath\r, X, 22, tr. Annals, 139), a name made up of saw
„speech, statement“ and the title tegin, for which last see above, no. 12, the whole
name conveying the meaning „prince conveying an important message“. See
Sümer-Yazgan, SA, II, 666–7; Bosworth, „Notes on some Turkish names“,
309–10, and idem, „Further notes on Turkish names“, 448.
26. TATAR, the name of a commander of Mas^ud b. Mu1ammad (I)’s (Rawand\,
225; 0usayn\, 72, tr. 52), this being in origin an ethonym, the name of a tribe,
probably Mongolic in origin and Mongol-speaking but then gradually Turkicised,
and living to the east and south of Lake Baikal at the time of the first Türk empire
and afterwards (Sauvaget, 50; Doerfer, TMEN, II, 433–4 no. 850; Golden, An
introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples, 145, 164–5, 184–5; Sümer-Yazgan,
SA, II, 672; Rásonyi-Baski, OT, II, 718–19).
27. TERSHEK, TIRSHEK, name of a commander of Malik Shah’s sent to conquer
Yemen and of a commander of Berk-yaruq’s and then of Sanjar’s (Bundar\,
76; 0usayn\, 72, tr. 52; Ibn al-Ath\r, X, 204, tr. Annals, 252, and 335, tr. Chronicle,
Part 1, 54), of uncertain etymology (Clauson, ED, 553; Sümer-Yazgan, SA, II, 681;
Rásonyi-Baski, OT, II, 749), but perhaps, so PG suggests, to be read as tirs(g)ek
„elbow, knee“ (see Clauson, loc. cit.).
28. T. OGHA(N)-YÜREK, the name of a commander of Berk-yaruq’s, and (?)
then of a commander associated with Mas^ud b. Mu1ammad (I)’s rival Malik
Dawud b. Ma1mud (II) and later Atabeg in Azerbaijan (0usayn\, 108, tr. 74 and
n. 339; Rawand\, 139; Ibn al-Ath\r, X, 290, 550, tr. Chronicle, Part 1, 25, 201), „stouthearted,
brave falcon“ (Clauson, ED, 470–1, 965; Sümer-Yazgan, SA, II, 677;
Rásonyi-Baski, OT, II, 755–7).
29. T. OGHRÏL, most famously, one of the sons of M\ka’\l b. Seljuq and cofounder
with Chaghrï Beg (see above, no. 9) of the Great Seljuq sultanate. To the
entry on this name in „Notes on some Turkish names“, 311–12, should now be
added reference to Sümer-Yazgan, SA, II, 551, 581ff., 678–9, and Rásonyi-Baski,
OT, I, pp. XXXIX–XL, II, 758–9; see also Rásonyi, „The psychology and categories
of name giving among the Turkish peoples“, 209–10, on the totemistic origin of
the name. The important role of this raptor in the mythology surrounding Magyar
origins has been mentioned in „Notes on some Turkish names“, 312, but it may be
further observed that the chronicler Simon Kézai (wrote c. 1282–5), as well as stat-