Pishpek

One: the acccount of Pishpek aka Frunze aka Bishkek, which is about the capital of Kyrgyzstan reverting to a pre-Soviet name.

Archive 2004-09-01 Ray Girvan 2004

One: the acccount of Pishpek aka Frunze aka Bishkek, which is about the capital of Kyrgyzstan reverting to a pre-Soviet name.

Doing the tell Ray Girvan 2004

It turned out that the etymology of the indigenous name Pishpek was unknown; the nearest Kyrgyz word was bishkek 'whisk with which kumiss is stirred.'

languagehat.com: BISHKEK/PISHPEK. 2004

After traveling twenty-seven days, the rail line ended in a barren place called Pishpek and there they stayed, living in decrepit, abandoned military barracks.

1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

But before that it was called Pishpek and now it is Bishkek; what is the relationship between these amusingly assonant names?

languagehat.com: BISHKEK/PISHPEK. 2004

My first inclination was to think "five somethings" is what it "Pishpek" means.

languagehat.com: BISHKEK/PISHPEK. 2004

As no-one knew the etymology of the old name, Pishpek, they chose a new one, the nearest word phonetically in Kyrgyz: bishkek, which means "kumiss-whisk".

Archive 2004-09-01 Ray Girvan 2004

As no-one knew the etymology of the old name, Pishpek, they chose a new one, the nearest word phonetically in Kyrgyz: bishkek, which means "kumiss-whisk".

Doing the tell Ray Girvan 2004

Also, when he was born in Bishkek it was called Pishpek.

languagehat.com: FAJITAS AND FALAFEL. 2004

Let's go to E.M. Pospelov, Geograficheskie nazvaniya mira (my translation):Founded in 1878 as a settlement selenie on the site of the former Kokand fortress Pishpek, which in 1926 was renamed Frunze after the Soviet party and military leader M.V. Frunze (1885-1925).

languagehat.com: BISHKEK/PISHPEK. 2004