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Deprecatory Ethnonyms: The Case of Boanghin [PDF]
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica, 2023 In this study, we aim to analyse the origin and semantics of one of the lexemes used by Romanians to refer to Hungarians: boanghin(a), also used as boanghen(a).
Imola Katalin Nagy
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The ethnonyms ‘Bushman’ and ‘San’
Acta Academica, 2010 The first part of the term “Bushman” has been variously explained as referring to bush-covered country, or to bushes as refuge from enemies, as cover from which to attack man or beast, or as dwelling places. The word boes is neither Afrikaans nor Dutch,
Peter Raper
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Proper Names as an Ethnocultural Text: Nogai Place Names as Determinants of Ethnic Memory
Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 2023 The toponymy of any region contains information about the most important stages in the history of the material and spiritual culture of the people, behind each geographical name there is a historical reality.
Mariia Bulgarova
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Język w procesie kształtowania nowych regionów w Polsce
Slavia Meridionalis, 2021 Language in the Creation Process of the New Regions of Poland The article concerns the influence of state reform on the evolution of regional identity. The aim of the article is to describe the role of language in these changes.
Mirosława Sagan-Bielawa
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Studies 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
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Toponymy in Focus. Review of the book: Barandeev, A. V. (Ed.). (2018). Voprosy geografii. Sb. 146. Aktualnye problemy toponimiki [Problems of Geography. 146. Topical Issues in Toponomastics]. Moscow: Codex. 312 p. [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2019 The review observes a new collection of studies devoted to the problems of Russian toponymy. Released under the authority of the Russian Geographical Society that keeps a constant focus on toponymy on the pages of its journal “Problems of Geography ...
Konstantin A. Gein
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Ethnonyms of North-Eastern Russia as a Special Layer of Regionalisms
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2019 Russian regional features became a subject of scientific attention in the late 1960s – early 1970s when scientists began to study old dialects, new regiolects, and how some regionalisms entered general use.
Mikhail S. Teikin
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Settlement Names Referring to Eastern Slavic Settlers in Medieval Hungary
Вопросы ономастики, 2022 Hungarians arrived at the Carpathian Basin at around 895–900 and after a long journey from the east they occupied the interior plains, mostly the river valleys (in Hungarian history, this event is referred to as the Conquest).
Anita Rácz
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2003 The focus of this paper is in formulating a framework where the relationship between such units toponyms, ethnonyms and glossonyms is established in a systematic way.
Pedro Lusakalalu
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WHAT ARE SHIBBOLETHNONYMS AND DO THEY EXIST IN THE SERBIAN LANGUAGE?
Filolog, 2023 Over the last decades, especially in the Slavic countries, onomastic disciplines and their terminologies have significantly improved. Therefore, in ethnonymics – a study of the names of peoples and, in a broader sense, the names of the inhabitants of ...
Milan D. Ivanović
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