Eeg

Eeg (i.e. "Freeborn") the name taken by all Turkomans who can claim pure Tflrki descent as opposed to the Kaul (base-born, slave), that is, the issue of a Turkoman and Persian woman, and the Dogmah, that is, the issue of a Kaul and a Persian slave. "To a stranger these distinctions might remain unknown, unless he guessed from the beard or the handsome features of a man that he had not the honour to be altogether derived from a beeirdless and a noseless race" (Captain H. Collett, The Khanate of Khiva, p. 54).