Funi Rehan

Funi Rehan, 匐你熱汗, is a Göktürk title that the Tongdian ties to the word for wine. As the text stands, the sentence says that the Göktürks called wine funi rehan. It then explains rehan alone: the rehan watched over wrongdoing and kept the order of precedence.^[1] The passage belongs to the Tongdian’s account of the early ranks of the khaganate. Their names were taken from the body, from age, from colour and hair, from wine and meat, or from animals.^[1]

In the sentences on old, horse, black, hair and meat, the Tongdian first gives the Göktürk word and then the title formed from it, with the words “and so there was”.^[1] One translation reads the sentence on wine in the same way, with funi as the word for wine and Funi Rehan as the title.^[2] On that reading a phrase has dropped out of the transmitted text. The Tongdian names no holder of the title.^[1]