Modu Chanyu
Mete results from Turkish deformation of standard Chinese "Modu" "墨毒" (&lt; Middle Chinese /*mək-duok/), which is a version of the name of Modu Chanyu, the founder of Xiongnu Empire. Modu 墨毒 was a reading proposed by 11th-century historian Song Qi for a Xiongnu word which was transcribed centuries earlier by Sima Qian as 冒顿 "Mòdùn" &lt; Middle Chinese "mək̚-tuənH" (ZS) &lt; Eastern Han Chinese *"mǝk-tuənC". 冒顿 might have transcribed the Xiongnu title reconstructed as *"baɣtur", linguistically related to the Turkic honorific title "Baghatur". Baghatur is also used as a masculine given name by Turkish people as Bahadır, Batur, and as in other cognate forms.