Talk:Merkit
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Removed from article as I couldn't confirm:
- ", while Genghis Khan's mother was on the honeymoon," and "When Genghis Khan was born, Yesugei and Hoelun could not figure it out whether he is Yesugei's or the Merkit's warrior's son."
I couldn't find any online source mentioning any doubt about Temujin's father. Rmhermen 22:03, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)
Why hasn't anyone mentioned the undeniable similarity between the ancient ethnonyms 靺鞨 (Mandarin Mòhé, Early Middle Japanese Maka or Sino-Japanese Makkat(u), Sino-Korean Markar), 勿吉 (Mandarin Wùjí, Sino-Japanese Mokkit(u), Sino-Korean *Meurkir or *Myrkir to Modern Sino-Korean Murkir), and the ethnonym of the Merkits that is attested in Mongolian sources? Is the phonetic similarity so striking that scholars have chosen to ignore it as a mere coincidence? Or does the vague similarity to the name of the Magyars trouble them? Sometimes I think scholars with a particular fondness for one Northeast Asian ethnic group or another have arbitrarily labelled some vanished tribes of the region as being "related to" or "a subtype of" the Mongolians, the Tungus, etc. without any solid evidence to back up their claims. To me, it all seems a lot like the old Chinese historian's practice of relating, apparently arbitrarily, the chiefs of any non-Chinese tribes with which they came into contact to the descendants of some extremely ancient rulers of China, such as the kings of the Xià or Shāng dynasties. (Posted by: nekomimi Apr 30, 2006)
