Etymology
In the ancient Western Han language, the form 屠耆 is restored as dā-grjəj, traditionally interpretedby the philologists with some reservations as Turkic tegin "prince". Philologists also noted a close phonetical resemblance with another ancient Turkic title, togrul, which is homophonic with the Turkic word togrul for "falcon". Modern philologists interpret the dā-grjəj as ancient Turkic doγri, modern Turkish doğru, Azeri, Turkmen, Gagauz doγru, Tuvinian doora, etc., "overt, just, honest", initially suggested by Friedrich von Schlegel (1772–1829), and accepted by Kurakichi Shiratori and others as direct semantical and phonetical correspondence. However, N.Ya. Bichurin, following the phonetization of the Qing period, phoneized 屠耆 as chjuki (Russ. Чжуки), which is a direct rendering of the Turkic ükü/jükü "wise", making it a literal translation of the Chinese annalistic expression "wise prince". That the ükü/jükü "wise" was in active Hunnic vocabulary is evidenced by an inscription on a silver plate that depict Attila's son Dikkiz as "King Dikkiz the Wise" (Kiŋkeg Dikkiz ükü) with ükü rendered in runiform (Right To Left).
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