in the 11th century dīwānu l-luġat al-turk by mahmud of kashgar kınık was the first in the list. but in the list prepared by rashid-al-din hamadani in the 13th century kınık is the last one. in the list of turkmen (oghuz) tribes provided by abul-ghazi, the khan and historian of the khanate of khiva, in his work "genealogy of turkmens", the kınık tribe is menioned as descendants of deniz khan with the name of the tribe meaning "honourable".