 David Marshall Lang derived it from Turkic "kötrügür" (conspicuous, eminent, renowned).There's been little scholarly support for theories linking the names of Kutrigurs and Utigurs to peoples such as the Guti/Quti and/or Udi/Uti, of ancient Southwest Asia and the Caucasus respectively, which has been posited by Osman Karatay, or "Duč'i" (some read "Kuchi") Bulgars by Josef Markwart.Grousset thought that the Kutrigurs were remnants of the Huns, Procopius recounts