Now as comparison Turkish
Turkish English beyaz (loanword) white karra(Arabic loan) black/dark mavi (arabic loanword) blue kirmizi (arabic loanword) red sari yellow
Turkish | English |
ak (native Turkic) | white |
kara (native Turkic) | black/dark |
gök (native Turkic) | blue |
al (native Turkic) | red |
sari (native Turkic; but shares similarities to East Iranian) | yellow |
Kur can have different meaning in Turkic, it can mean hill, mountain, fortress and it can mean protection. -gan is just a suffix (with a soft -ĝ-). I don't think it can be applied to Iranism.It might be a hybridization of Iranic and Turkic ( as we know many Words in Turkic are hybridizations of Iranic and Altaic words). Maybe Kur is Iranic for hil/mountain while Gan Altaic for Grave?
Or gan/an might come from typical ending for Iranic terms.
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