• Gerhard Doerfer (8 March 1920 – 27 December 2003) was a German Turkologist, Altaicist, and philologist best known for his studies of the Turkic languages...
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    Khalaj language, which are mostly interchangeable with modern Khalaj. Gerhard Doerfer, who rediscovered Khalaj, demonstrated that it was an independent branch...
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    1–23. Doerfer, Gerhard. 1973. "Lautgesetze und Zufall: Betrachtungen zum Omnicomparativismus." Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 10. Doerfer, Gerhard...
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  • Burgundian king Gundioc and the Frankish king Merovech. According to Gerhard Doerfer, the name can be derived from a Gothic *Mundiweihs, from mund- (protection)...
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  • attributed its origin to padishah, while repeating a suggestion by Gerhard Doerfer that it was influenced by Turkic baskak (bāsqāq), meaning 'agent, tax...
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  • transitional form between Azerbaijani and Khorasani Turkic. Turkologist Gerhard Doerfer identifies Sonqori as a possible dialect of Azerbaijani, or as a distinctive...
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    name "offers neither phonetic nor semantic difficulties",: 386  and Gerhard Doerfer notes that the name is simply correct Gothic.: 29  Alexander Savelyev...
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    Iranica, by Michael Knüppel "Azeri Turkish" at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Gerhard Doerfer "Qašqāʾi Tribal Confederacy II: Language" at Encyclopædia Iranica "Qašqāʾi...
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  • Andrew Miller, John C. Street and Karl Heinrich Menges. Gerard Clauson, Gerhard Doerfer, Juha Janhunen, Stefan Georg and others dispute or reject this.[citation...
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    a borrowing from an Iranian language. However, German Turkologist Gerhard Doerfer assessed the derivation from Iranian as superficially attractive but...
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