“Boy-ru” is a relation, a line by birth, the generation, one branch of a big tribe. “Rubashy” (chief of a family) is a governor of the tribe from one “ru” (Қазақ Тiлiнiң Сөздiгi-Алматы, 1999. 541б). Old Turkic “oq”> an arrow means “a tribe”, oγuš means a family, Old Mongolian obuγ > ovog (a family); aymaq > aimak (the union of families, a tribe). Old Turkic word “budun” (people) has a common root with the word “bod//boy” – family, kin, clan. |