Jack Weatherford

speaker

3,108 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard Aug 2025

Jack Weatherford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

No recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Lex Fridman Podcast · #476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire · 1 Aug 2025 podcast

The more meanings a word has, the more power that word has.

So if it has different meaning in different languages.

So in Mongolian, it sounds like strong, qin.

Chinggis, but in Turkic, and there are many Turkic people, including the Merkit themselves, are mostly Turkic people.

It sounds like the sea, tingis, tingis.

Especially with names.

Yeah.

I'm like, today in Mongolia, well, I've been there so long, I think the fad has passed now, but about 20 years ago, it was popular to name children Michelle.

Mm-hmm.

girls because it's a French name, an American name, and it means smile.

in Mongolia.

So it's the power of three great languages and three great civilizations.

And so many names are like that.

And so I think Chinggis, it doesn't have one meaning.

I think it means powerful.

It means the sea.

I think it means many different things.

But so he had become a Khan and he was ruling over him.

And so Jamukha now switched loyalties to the next kingdom over called the Naiman people who are farther West.

And, um,

Showing 521–540 of 3,108 · page 27 of 156