Esegels (aka Izgil (), Äsägel, Askel, Askil, Ishkil, Izgil) were an Oghur Turkic dynastic tribe in the Middle Ages who joined and would be assimilated into the Volga Bulgars.
Esegels (aka Izgil (), Äsägel, Askel, Askil, Ishkil, Izgil) were an Oghur Turkic dynastic tribe in the Middle Ages who joined and would be assimilated into the Volga Bulgars.
Numerous records about Esegels in sources and works of many languages across the span of the Eurasia left numerous variations of their name. M. Räsänen suggested Uralo-Altai etymology of this word: Es-kil, Es-gil "Old city", Gumilyov initially linked the Izgils to the Sijie (思结) of the Toquz Oghuz; only to later re-identify Izgils with Xijie (奚結), another Tiele tribe. However, Zuev (2002) distinguished Izgil (> Ch. *a-siək-kiet 阿悉結 > Axijie, a Western Tujue tribe according to Chinese sources) from Igil (> Ch. *ɣiei-kiet 奚結 > Xijie, a Tiele tribe) though Zuev controversially links the Igils 奚結 to the Bulgarian clan Uokil and the Indo-European-speaking Augaloi in Transoxania.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).