Ashide

[1] Yury Zuev reconstructed Old Turkic *Ashtak, further from Middle Persian Azdahāg, from Avestan: Aži Dahāka "Serpent, Dragon", related to Azhdaha.

[6][7] Ashide chiefs bore the title Irkin (Hanzi: 俟斤; Pinyin: Sijin) common to tribal leaders in the Turkic Khaganate.

However, their particular position is determined by kinship with the dynasty; it was no coincidence that one of Irkin Ashide tegin held the title 'the prince of the royal family'.

[8] To the end of the 7th-8th centuries, it was probably more correct to speak about Ashide as one of the tribes of the khaganate, which together with Ashina was the main military and political support of the Turkic dynasty.

[9] In 2015-2016, a Fudan University (Shanghai) study headed by ethnogenomist Wen Shao-Qing (文少卿) in China, ran tests to determine the Y-DNA haplogroup representatives from the aristocratic Turkic Ashide clan.