Words of Turkic origin in ancient Greek

Abstract

The article notes the functioning of turkisms in many languages of the world, including
Greek, English, French, Russian and other languages. It is known that the Turks established socio-political
and cultural ties with many ancient peoples, and sometimes settled on the territories of these peoples or in
areas close to them. Such areal contacts caused language and lexical borrowings.
N.A. Baskakov in the book “Russian surnames of Turkish origin”, wrote that the origins of 300
noble Russian families go back to Turkic roots, including genealogy and the scientist A.Kh. Khalikov notes
numerous Turkic words in the Russian language. In the book “500 generations of Turkish-Bulgarian-Tatar
origin, known as Russian”, he explores 500 surnames of Turkic origin. In the book “Turks in the ancestral
roots of the Russians” also gives information about the origin of the Turks and the Turkic generations,
known as the Russian generation. According to Chingiz Aitmatov, one third of Russian words are Turkic.
Similar language Turkish loanwords are observed in ancient Greek and modern Greek, which is
the subject of this article. According to some researchers, the Indo-European languages on the territory of
the Balkan Peninsula appeared thanks to the Greeks. Even in ancient times, researchers noted that in the
territory of modern Greece once lived people who did not speak the Indo-European language, which is
approximately 2500 BC. The era of 2500-1600 BC is associated with the Hittites, later the Greeks settled
on the territory of Hellas.
According to some researchers, the most ancient inhabitants of the territory of Ancient Greece were
the traki, whose language was later assimilated with the language of the hittites, and then the Greeks. In
ancient scandinavian sources, there are relics of the language of tracts belonging to the Western branch of
the proturks, which is confirmed by the praturkian vocabulary and onomastics. The Greek-Turkic language
substrata and units imprinted in ancient Greek confirm the presence of Turkic loanwords, which have not
lost their relevance in modern language contacts between Turkish and Greek.