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249. GUDDERI

griden VB guderi FA, LT, V, VA gudery FA, FB
gudderi F, L, LT, P, Z; R

This is the Mongol name of the musk-deer, kūdāri, dialectally ḥūderi and ḥūdūri (cf. POTANIN,
Očerki, IV, 159); Tib. gla-wa; Turk. tabïrγa, with dialectal forms which have given the Russian
kabarga, and others like šibïrγan (RADLOV, s. v. tabïrγa; POTANIN, Očerki, IV, 159). The word
kūdāri has not yet been met with in any ancient text apart from Polo; the Hua-i i-yü gives for « musk-
deer » jihar (written Mong. ji'ar < jibar, Turk. yïpar), which is the name of « musk » itself. KOVA-
LEVSKII adds, s. v. kūdāri, a Kirgh. form « khoude », which would seem to find some support in
the double Mong. forms kūdāri and kūdāi of the Chinese Tetraglot Dictionary (Ssŭ-t'i ho-pi wên-
chien, 31, 54 a); but I am not certain of the accuracy of « khoude ». There is in KKirgh. an animal
kūdörö, unidentified in RADLOV, II, 1487, but perhaps the civet-cat; I suspect it is KOVALEVSKII's
« khoude ». At any rate, kūdörö is fundamentally the same as Mong. kūdāri, although referring
to another animal; in Kalmuk, küdṭ applies to both the musk-deer and the musk-rat (desman);
cf. RAMSTEDT, Kalm. Wörterbuch, 244². A semantic change may also be supposed in Osm. güdāri,
« finely prepared skin », which would then have meant originally « deer » and afterwards « deer-skin ».
The derivation of kūdāri is unknown. There is no reason for the double -dd- in F, Z, L,
and the guderi of V, VA, has perhaps preserved Rustichello's original spelling.


250. GUILIELME DE TRIPULE

ghuglelmo di tripoli TA³ guilelmus tripolitanus P guillelmus de tripoli LT
giles tripolitanus P⁵ guilielme de tripule F gulielmo da tripoli VL
guielmo da tripoli R guilielmus de tripoli L uielmo da tripolli VB
guilielmo da tripolli VA guillaume de triple FA, FB uielmo da tripoli V
guiglielmo da tripoli TA¹

Guglielmo da Tripoli was one of the two Dominicans who were to accompany the three Polos
to Qubilai's Court, but who did not go further than Ayas in Lesser Armenia. He has been mistaken
more than once for Guillaume de Rubrouck (cf. D'AVEZAC, Rec. de Voyages, IV, 553; ROCKHILL,
Rubruck, XXXIX; what ZARNCKE, Der Priester Johannes [1876], 94-95, attributes to a chronicle by
Guglielmo da Tripoli is due to that old confusion and occurs only in Rubrouck). Guglielmo da