ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD "ARİ". WHO ARE ARİ?

Abstract

One of the main tasks facing the sciences of history and linguistics is to be able to scientifically and correctly present the etymology of the word “Ari”, one of the most important key words, in order to correctly assess a number of historical events and explain a number of geographical names and ethnonyms. In order to explain the word Ari correctly, the author examines many toponyms and ethnonyms related to this word that have gone down of different periods in history in different regions. The article also indicates that the word “Ari” went down in history along with the expression “Az ari” in Turkic written monuments and as the name of the ancient city “Azari” = Az + ari. In addition, the word "ary", which is still widely used in the Azerbaijani language, is an adjective derived from the word "ar" (free from negative qualities, pure; brave, containing the highest moral qualities...), as well as the meaning of ancient the word “ar” attracts attention as a Bashkir (Turkic) ethnonym. {Note that the word “ari” is pronounced in dialect and with a thick sound, like “ary” (which sounds like this in Turkish: arı) ; therefore, this kind of dialectal difference is not alien to Turkic languages (in the example of the Azerbaijani language), for example, this situation is manifested in the words myhy//mihi (which sounds like this in Russian:  мыхы//михи), which means peg-shaped, which comes from the noun “myh” [which sounds like this in Russian: мых (nail)]: in the Azerbaijani language, Sumerian writings are sometimes also called mihi (cuneiform).}

The author, referring to the Russian scientist V. Radlov and others, in his previous works substantiates that the word Ar is a Turkic word and that this word is used in four dialects, such as ar//er//ir//ır, and is the basis words ary//ari, ary, arian, arya, aryan, aryan, aran, iran and others [because this is obvious to anyone who is simply familiar with the laws of Azerbaijani (Turkic) grammar]. But scientists mistakenly think that these words are based on the word ari or arya.

The word Ar/Er is found in the word Azer or Azeri // Azari (az+ari), as the real names of the Azerbaijani people; in the name Ar+an, which was a state on the historical territory of Azerbaijan, after the name of the river Araz=Ar+az, flowing through the territory of this country; in Karabakh Province of this country - in the toponym Ar+sak, which was the former name of the province, and as mentioned above, in Turkic written monuments (in the form of Az ari) and in the ancient Turkic territories between Lake Urmia and the city of Kirkuk in Iraq - by the name of the city of Azari = Az+ari, which was built before the arrival of Persian culture in the region, etc. appears.

To summarize, the author states that the word ar, which is the root of the word ari, with all its forms (ar//er//ir//yr) is part of the following ethnonyms and toponyms: Ar+i, Ar+ an, Ar+i +an, İr+ an, İr+lan(d), Er+an, Ar+yan, (with other distorted sounds in Albanian and Armenian sources: İr+an+(ia), İr+an(k) , (H') Er+an, Mets Ir+an+(k)); Ar+ami (actually: Ar+an+i=Aranly, from the Aran tribe – Kh.I.), Az+er//Az+ər, Azerbaijan (Azer+bai+jan), Khaz+er//Khaz+ar, Suv+ar, Ar+ man//Er+man, Tat +ar, Av+ar, Sub+ar, Sum+er, Keng+ir, Er+lik...), Ir+kut, Ir+kut +(sk)... As for the opinion that the word Arya, which supposedly came from Sanskrit, is contained in the Behistun inscriptions of the 6th century BC means Iranian, the author does not see any contradictions with this derivative version with his approach. So here, it seems, the Turkic word “Ar”, which is the root of the word “Arya”, changed to the Turkic word “Ir”, which is the root of the word “Iran” (which, according to the confirmation of V. Radlov and other prominent scientists, occurs according to the laws Turkic languages). This also shows that the word Iran is not of Persian origin and the presence of «–ya», which acts as a Sanskrit suffix in the word Arya, plays a confusing role. The fact that researchers have confirmed that approximately 10-15% of the words that make up Sanskrit are of Turkic origin and have given examples implies that the root word Aryan came to the Sindh (Indian) region from the northern borders and later passed through the Ari/Ari Turks who created the ancient culture of Indus and Sindh there. {By the way, in the oldest Sanskrit texts the Aryans are mentioned not as Indians, but as enemies of the Indians [1, p. 4, 142]}. On the other hand, since Sanskrit is considered by linguists to be compatible with the ancient European languages (Latin and Greek), if we assume that the suffix «–ya» in Sanskrit has the same meaning as in Greek, then it must appear as a plural suffix: as in the word Asia. In the word Asia, the root (Az) is Turkic, and the suffix (-iya//ya//ia) is Latin and Greek [8, p.6-9, 11-12, 438-439]. In this case, Arya will mean – Ars (as part of a sentence: noun). This again means Ars//Aryans and does not contradict the origin of the word Arya with Ar.