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Revisiting the Etymology of the Ethnonym Mordva [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики
The Russian term for the Erzya and Moksha Peoples, Mordva, attested since the 12th century, is an exoethnonym with no roots in the Mordvinic languages.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Napolskikh   +1 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Family and Ethnonym

open access: yes, 2017
The problem of naming forager-cultivator peoples is well-known. They call themselves by terms of kinship and shared humanity, but other people give them a variety of confusing and often derogatory names.
Nurit Bird-David
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Sobre el etnónimo de los gálatas (y de los celtas) [PDF]

open access: yesGerión, 2002
Some of the traditional explanations for the name of the Celtae have no typological paralell at all. The old name of the Celtae could be well preserved in the ethnonym Galatai, which could be explained as *gala- ´end, limit, border´ and *tai `those, they´
Xaverio Ballester
doaj   +3 more sources

Variation in ethnonym-based names of clothing items in Russian dialects: a cultural and sociolinguistic study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Though modern linguistics pays great attention to the theory of nomination, in particular to the study of thematic groups, the dialectic names of clothing items are among the least commonly investigated types of words.
Oksana Marunevich   +3 more
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ANCIENTS ROOTS AND SEMANTICS FIELD OF ETHNONIM KAS/KAŠ

open access: yesКавказология, 2019
The use of the root morpheme kas for the name of the ancient and medieval peoples of Eurasia is considered: helmets, Kassites, Caspians, Circassians. A connection is established between this ethnonym and the god of the moon in the Hutt, Cascian, Cassite ...
B. Kh. BGAZHNOKOV
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Bavarian geographer's Prissani and (Old) Prussians

open access: yesLietuvių Kalba, 2017
It is a widespread opinion in literature that the ethnonym Prussians is first encountered as the form Bruzi in a short Latin manuscript headed Descriptio civitatum et regionum ad septentrionalem plagam Danubii.
Diego Ardoino
doaj   +1 more source

Names of Tuvan Clan / Tribal Groups Analyzed

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2022
Introduction. In recent decades, Tuvans have shown an increasing interest in their clan/tribal histories contained in state archival documents or memoirs of their ancestors preserved in family files. Goals.
Lyubov S. Kara-ool, Igor V. Kormushin
doaj   +1 more source

Ethonyms in Hausa

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 1984
Hausa ethnonyms, terms indicating a person's origin, ethnic affiliation, or professional or social position, are formed with a prefix ba-in the singujlar and a suffix -aawaa in the plural. This paper provides a detailed specification of the segmental and
Paul Newman
doaj   +3 more sources

EVALUATION FUNCTION OF THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BORROWINGS IN THE MODERN LANGUAGE PERIOD

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The article deals with phraseological units of the English language with ethnonym component. To determine national and cultural particularity of the English ethnic group we distinguish and analyse phraseological units with ethnonym component which have a
P. V. Pantukhova, I. S. Reshetova
doaj  

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