
Originally, all Turkic tribes that were part of the Turkic dynastic mythological system (for example, Uigurs, Karluks, and a number of other tribes) were designated
"Turkmens". Only later did this word come to refer to a specific ethnonym. The term derives from
Türk plus the Sogdian affix of similarity
-myn,
-men, and means "resembling a Türk" or "co-Türk
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