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- ↑ Erdal (2002: 60) is of opinion that the word elči is better to understand as 'ruler'.
- ↑ Tekin (1964) was the first who has pointed out that the runiform letters <sIz> are to be read as äsiz 'alas'.
- ↑ Esiz. This word is occurred frequently in Yenisey inscriptions. The scientists below considered this word the following way: W.Radloff siz - «Von euch», [3] S.Malov siz - «from You», [4] I.A. Baranov- «from You». [5] In this case it’s necessary to clarify the meaning of this word. There are two suggestions of this question: posthumous words where devoted to someone who died, or these inscriptions were death words of a dying man. In any case, the stone words were written from died man. Words devoted to the deceased person occurred rarely. In other words this word is edification of the deceased person. For this reason, the word «You» and «alas, grief» wouldn’t suit for translation.