𐱅𐰇𐰠𐰃𐰾
Tölis
Meaning:
Tölis, eastern wing of the Turkic Khaganate
Tölis designated the eastern division of the early Turkic Khaganate, paired with the western Tarduş. The inscriptions describe the organization of the two groups under a yabğu and a şad (Kül Tegin E 13–14) and place the Tölis begs in the east (Bilge Kağan S 13–14). The name is also transcribed Töliş; its proposed identification with Chinese Tiele (鐵勒), a wider tribal confederation, is disputed.
Related clan names survive as Tuvan tülüš, Southern Altai töölös, and Kyrgyz töölös / döölös. Their relationship to the later Yenisei töläs designation is plausible; an uninterrupted line from the particular eighth-century eastern wing is not proved.
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Translations
German:
Tölis, Ostflügel des Türk-Kaganats
Russian:
тёлис, восточное крыло Тюркского каганата
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
Tölis, Türk xaqanlığının şərq qolu
Turkish (Türkiye):
Tölis, Türk Kağanlığı’nın doğu kolu
Bibliography 4
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Mihály Dobrovits (2023) Eski Türk yazıtlarında Tölis ve Tarduş’larpp. 131–133, Orkhon evidence; pp. 133–135, Ongin and Küli Çor identifications
İmparatorluğun doğu kolunu teşkil eden Tölis’lere gelince -
Vladimir Tishin (2017) К истории происхождения тувинской родоплеменной группы тюлюш (түлүш)pp. 210–212 (Tölis and Tiele debate), pp. 220–224 (Yenisei name and modern clan comparison)
восточного — tölis / töliš ~ töläs / töläš, и западного крыла — tarduš -
Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkishp. 867a, complete entry šadapı:t (containing Tölis begs in the inscription)p. 867a, complete entry šadapı:t (containing Tölis begs in the inscription)
VUF şadapı:t n.o.a.b.; prob. a title of some kind compounded of şad and (VU) api:t, perhaps meaning ‘the entourage of the şad’ or the like. Türkü viii (listen to me all of you, my younger brothers, sons, united clan and people) berye: şadapı:t begler yirya: tarxat buy-ruk begler ‘the şadapı:ts and begs on the right (or to the south), the tarxans ministers and begs on the left (or to the north)’ I S 1; Türkü amti: begler kesre: Tarduş begler Kül Çor başlayu: ulayu: şadapı:t begler, ögre Tölis begler Apa: Tarxan başlayu: ulayu: şada[pı:t] begler ‘now the Türkü begs, to the west the Tarduş begs, all the şadapı:ts and begs with Kül Çor at their head, to the east the Tölis begs, all the şadapı:ts and begs with Apa: Tarxan at their head’ II N 13–14. -
M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachenp. 176a, complete small entry on yabγup. 176a, complete small entry on yabγu
atü. uig. jabγu ’eine hohe Würde’, (Gab.) ’Titel des Oberhaupts der Tölis’, mtü. jafγu ’eine Würde zwei Stufen unter dem Chakan’ Marquart, Volkstum der Komanen 69, Erānšahr 209 (chin. hiphân, jawugö auf Münzen der Küšān; Bang, KSz 18: 120)
