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Leitung: Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer und Wolfram Naumann, München
Old Turkic qut, Japanese {mi.)kötö *
By ROY Andrew Miller, Honolulu, Hawah, USA
hl a paper endtled "Turkic qut, Korean kut: Problems of an Altaic Com¬
parison Revisited", read at the SS""^ PIAC in Budapest 1990 (and presently
in the press for the Proceedings of those meetings), we sought to clarify
certain problemadc areas in the much-mooted linguistic comparison of
OTk. qut and Nkor. kut, kus- 'a shamanistic ritual'. In that same paper,
whose analysis and evidence are to be understood as prolegomena to the
following remarks, we also touched briefly upon the possible relevance to
the future study of these quesdons of 0[ld] J[apanese] mt.kötö, generally
glossed as a title used in eighth-century texts with god-names, and later a
dde of respect for persons of high rank. The form is transparently com¬
posed of OJ nit-, a so-called "honorific prefix" and OJ -2lcötö "^spirit", a
bound-form that is to be kept lexically distinct from two other homopho¬
nous OJ forms, ikötö 'thing, fact', and ^kötö 'word, language'. In the
present paper we shall attempt to amphfy the documentation available on
qut from "Outer Altaic" sources, with particular attention to materials avail¬
able from early Japanese sources, as well as to other early written records
from Greater Eurasia.
By an interesting and not endrely irrelevant accident of history, within
the Altaic linguistic domain, where in general we lack the advantage of
having genuinely old written records for any of the languages involved, it
happens that it is precisely those two languages that are found at the
remotest geographical extremes of the area - Old Turkish on the one hand
and Old Japanese on the other - for which we have what are actually the
oldest written sources. A further and even more significant coincidence is
involved when we note that these two important bodies of old written
records happen to date from very nearly the same period. For OTk., our
oldest texts are five monumental inscriptions dating mainly from a period
* The author's participation in the 25th Orientalistentag of tlie Deutsche Morgenländi¬
sche GeseUschaft, as well as his residence in Germany during which the research herein reported was carried out, were made possible by the much-appreciated award of a For¬
schungspreis by Üie Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, which he gratefully acknowled¬
ges.
Cornelia Wunsch (Hrsg.): XXV. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Vorträge, München 8.-13.4.1991
(ZDMG-Suppl. 10). - © 1994 Franz Steiner Veriag Stuttgart
