 Oghuz is a Turkic word meaning "community" and "toquz" means "nine".Similarly the Karluks were also known as the "Uch-Oguz" – "uch" meaning "three".The root of the generalized ethnical term "oghuz" is "og"-, meaning "clan, tribe"; which in turn, according to Kononov, descends from the ancient Turkic word "ög" meaning "mother" (however, Golden considered such a further derivation impossible).