1595 TARİHLİ DEFTER-İ MUFASSAL-I LİVÂ-İ AHISHA’DAKİ MOĞOLCA KİŞİ ADLARI ÜZERİNE

Defter-i Mufassal-ı Livâ-i Ahısha dates back to 1595 C.E., and contains important information about tax types, amounts, and taxpayers themselves. Moreover, various branches of academia have already studied such data at relative length. There have been ethnogenesis debates in the region, especially over the names of people. However, no one has discussed the Mongolian names of the people in the book thus far. In this article, we shall talk about the process of how Mongolians named people, and then provide a list of about a hundred Mongolian names from the Defter-i Mufassal-ı Livâ-i Ahısha in alphabetical order, together with the places they pass, their meanings, and where they are documented. Today, the presence of Mongolian elements in place names, personal names and vocabulary of the region makes the Mongolian person explains the meanings behind them. When we look at the sound changes seen in Mongolian person names, we see that Mongolian features continue in some of them. We also see sound changes peculiar to Qipchak, whose presence is felt in the region today. In addition, the use of the suffix /+A/ appears to have been added to Mongolian personal names in the notebook and continues to exist in Artvin-Ahiska dialects. Furthermore, its more common than the Mongolian equivalent of this suffix /+GA/, and appears to stem from Turkification that would have taken place towards the end of the 16th century. However, some of the names haven’t lost their Mongolian traits; this implies that Mongols were still present in this part of the world at the time.