text: As several scholars have suggested, the reconstructed Old Chinese pronunciation of Modu 冒頓, "appears to represent a foreign *baγtur, a relative of the later-attested Central Eurasian culture word baγatur 'hero'. The etymology of the word is unknown, though the first syllable is very likely the Turkic word *baγ 'god, lord', an element in many later Central Eurasian titles."