Talk:шара

I remember this word being mentioned as a Turkic borrowings in Schenker's Dawn of Slavic, but I cannot verify it anywhere else. Skok mentions Mladenov's connection with Turkic *sari "yellow", so it might've been related to that.. Word-initial ša- is almost certainly not of native (inherited) Slavic or Indo-European origin. I'd mention that it might be borrowed from Turkic Bulgars (whence also Hungarian sárga, sár), but I imagine that you would like that theory very much so I won't :) --Ivan Štambuk 15:07, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

I would like it indeed, but the Bulgars were an East Iranian people. There are numerous facts disproving the obsolete Turkic theory about their origin but I do not feel like recapitulating them exactly here. Do you know, one Pashtun living in Bulgaria once phoned in the historical programme of Prof. Božidar Dimitrov (he is a celebrity over here) and explained that every Pashto child knows the meaning of Asparukh and that there were hundreds of Bulgarian words intelligible for Pashto speakers (Pashto being also an East Iranian language). A purely historical evidence can be found in this concise article of Prof. Bakalov (in Bulgarian). Many others emerged in the 1990s as some Protobulgarian inscriptions were deciphered thanks to comparisons with East Iranian vocabulary, after Turkic-related efforts had failed... The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 13:34, 20 November 2009 (UTC)