Basich
Sign in to saveBasich or Basikh (, fl. 395) was a Hun military commander who co-led an invasion of Persia in 395 AD together with Kursich.
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Basich or Basikh (, fl. 395) was a Hun military commander who co-led an invasion of Persia in 395 AD together with Kursich.
==Etymology== Otto Maenchen-Helfen took the ending -ich for the Turkic diminutive -iq; he proposed that Basich came from basiq, meaning "little captain". Omeljan Pritsak instead understood there to be a suffix -siġ, meaning "like something"; he derived Basich from Turkic *bars-siġ with loss of the -r- and degemination, giving a meaning "feline-like". Gerhard Doerfer takes the name as having a Hunnish origin, but has criticized both Turkic explanations as relying on unproductive suffixes that are not easily proven to have existed.
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