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Kanasubigi or ''Kana sybigi'', as it is written in Bulgarian Greek inscriptions, was a title of the Bulgars. The title ''khan'' for early Bulgar rulers is an assumed one, as only the form ''kanasubigi'' or "k(h)anasybigi"〔Florin Curta, Roman Kovalev, “The” Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans ; (... Presented in the Three Special Sessions at the 40th and 42nd Editions of the International Congress on Medieval Studies Held at Kalamazzo in 2005 and 2007 ), BRILL, 2008, p. 363, ISBN 9789004163898〕 is attested in stone inscriptions. Historians presume that it includes the word ''khan'' in its archaic form ''kana'', and there is a supporting evidence suggesting that the latter title was indeed used in Bulgaria, e.g. the name of one of the Bulgarian rulers Pagan occurs in Patriarch Nicephorus's so-called breviarium as (''Kampaganos''), likely an erroneous rendition of the phrase "Kan Pagan".〔''Източници за българската история ''. Fontes historiae bulgaricae, VI. Fontes graeci historiae Bulgaricae. БАН, София. p. 305 (in Byzantine Greek and Bulgarian). (Also available online )〕 Among the proposed translations for the phrase ''kanasubigi'' as a whole are ''lord of the army'', from the reconstructed Turkic phrase '' *sü begi'', paralleling the attested Old Turkic ''sü baši'',〔(Veselin Beševliev, ''Prabylgarski epigrafski pametnici'' - 5 )〕 and, more recently, "(ruler) from God", from the Indo-European '' *su-'' and ''baga-'', i.e. '' *su-baga'' (an equivallent of the Greek phrase , ''ho ek Theou archon'', which is common in Bulgar inscriptions).〔(''Blackwell Synergy - Early Medieval Europe'', vol. 10, issue 1, pp. 1-19, March 2001 (Article Abstract) )〕 This titulature presumably persisted until the Bulgars adopted Christianity.〔Sedlar, Jean W,. (''East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500'' ), p. 46〕 Some Bulgar inscriptions written in Greek and later in Slavonic refer to the Bulgarian ruler respectively with the Greek title ''archon'' or the Slavic title ''knyaz''.〔Manassias Chronicle, Vatican transcription, p. 145, see Battle of Pliska〕 == Etimology == Etymologically, it may also be associated and well explained with Proto-Turkish word ''kan'' meaning "ancestor" (in modern Turkish "blood"). (N.B.: the words ''khan'' and ''kagan'' don't have the same origin, so that they probably can't explain ''kana'', although the meanings similar. The differentiation between ''kana'' and ''kagan/khan'' can clearly be made whenever these words are contained in Bulgar names. The vowel ''a'' as junction vowel is common in Turkic languages; ''su'' ("water;" "river;" "lake") is pan-Turkic, and ''bigi'' might be a variant of begi, both being variants of beyi "bey of", "lord of," "head of". Its specific positioning at the end of the word justifies the assumption that ''bigi'' means ''begi'' (i.e., ''beyi''). Etimologically, structural integrity is supported by the homogeneity of the origins of the words that build the phrase kanasubigi. It probably was supposed to mean "ancestor of the lord of the rivers". Proto-Bulgarians either a Central Asian Turkic dialect or may only have borrowed names from that language and preserved them after their assumed emigration from Central Asia. The words ''kan'', ''su'' and ''bigi'' fit the phonetics and semantics of Proto-Turkic texts found in Central Asia (created around AD 732), written in the so-called Orkhon Script. It is also possible that it means 'honest (ruler) from God'/'military commander', from the Proto-Turkic roots *''su''- ("soldier, officer") and *''baj''- ("rich ruler; god; honest"), i.e. *''su-baj''.〔(“subay” ) in ''Nişanyan Dictionary''〕〔(“bay” ) in ''Nişanyan Dictionary''〕〔(“ *baj (~ -ń)” ), (“ *bēǯu” ) in Sergei Starostin, Vladimir Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003), ''Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages'', Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers〕 This titulature presumably persisted until the Bulgars adopted Christianity.〔Sedlar 1994: 46〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kanasubigi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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