Kursich
Kursich | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4th century |
| Died | After 395 AD |
Kursich (fl. 395) was a
Hunnic invasion of Persia
in 395 AD.
Etymology
Otto Maenchen-Helfen considered the name to be a hybrid of Turkic and another language.[2] He took the ending -ich to be a Turkic diminutive suffix -iq,[3] while he compared kurs to the name Churs, attested as the name of an Armenian prince, Ossetian xors and the Ias name Horz.[2] Gerhard Doerfer takes the name for Hunnish but rejects attempts to etymologize it.[4] Historian Hyun Jin Kim argued that the name was Turkic.[5][page needed
]
Biography
The Huns started to seriously threaten the
Derbent Pass.[7]
Priscus recorded that Kursich later came to the city of Rome to make an alliance.[7] Maenchen-Helfen suggested that he and Basich came to Rome in 404 or 407, as mercenaries.[8]
References
- ^ Pritsak 1982, pp. 435–436.
- ^ a b Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 422.
- ^ Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 405.
- ^ Doerfer 1973, pp. 41–43.
- ^ Kim 2015.
- ISBN 978-0-631-15899-8.
- ^ ISBN 9780521243049.
- ^ Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 55.
Works cited
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1973). "Zur Sprache der Hunnen". Central Asiatic Journal. 17 (1): 1–50. JSTOR 41927011.
- Kim, Hyun Jin (2015). The Huns. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781317340904. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
- ISBN 9780520015968.
- JSTOR 41036005.