Octar

Octar or Ouptaros was a Hunnic ruler. He ruled in dual kingship with his brother Rugila, possibly with a geographical division, ruling the Western Huns while his brother ruled the Eastern Huns.

Person

Born: 0350-00-00
Died: 0430-01-01

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Key facts

Royalty.name: Octar
Royalty.succession: Chieftain of the Huns (co-rulership)
Royalty.reign: 420–430
Royalty.predecessor: Charaton
Royalty.successor: Rugila
Royalty.birth_date: Late 4th century or early 5th century
Royalty.death_date: 430
Royalty.death_place: Rhineland
Royalty.father: Uldin

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Octar or Ouptaros was a Hunnic ruler. He ruled in dual kingship with his brother Rugila, possibly with a geographical division, ruling the Western Huns while his brother ruled the Eastern Huns.

==Etymology== The name is recorded in two variants, Greek Ούπταρος (Ouptaros), and Latin Octar. The change from -ct- to -pt- is characteristic of Balkan Latin. Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen considered the name to be of unknown origin. Omeljan Pritsak derived the name from Turko-Mongolic word *öktem (strong, brave, imperious; proud, boastful; pride) and verb ökte- / oktä- (to encourage). He argued that the deverbal Turkic-Mongolian suffix m was replaced in Turkic by z while in Mongolian by ri. The reconstructed form is appellative *öktä-r.