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Folk-Etymology, and its Influence on Metatron Traditions [PDF]

open access: yesJournal for the Study of Judaism, 2013
Abstract This paper takes a new approach to the contentious area of the etymology of Metatron, applying the lessons learnt from biblical folk-etymologies which have been shown to actively influence the writing of narratives. In the first section one such possible folk-etymology is proposed, based around the sequence TTR as a divine name in Metatron ...
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CREATIVITY OF THE BUKOVINIAN FOLK PRAYERS

open access: yesАктуальні питання суспільних наук та історії медицини, 2020
Prayer is a multifaceted phenomenon of the humanitarian paradigm of thinking: prayer is a genre of fiction, a fideistic text, a genre of confessional communication, a folklore text.
Natalia RUSNAK
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On Semantic and Motivationsl Reconstruction of Russian Dialect Word LUTONYA

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2018
The question of the origin of Russian dialect word lutonya recorded by dialectal dictionaries in several meanings related to personal characteristics of the man: ‘slow man,’ ‘scruffy man,’ ‘liar,’ ‘tall man’ is considered.
E. A. Borisova
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Adalékok a nyelvhasználók családnevekkel kapcsolatos ismeretéhez

open access: yesNévtani Értesítő, 2016
Comments on language users’ knowledge about family names     The paper presents the conclusions drawn from a 2010 questionnaire survey of adult language users’ knowledge about, and attitudes to their own names, family names from their places of ...
Anita Schirm
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Revisiting the Paronymic Attraction to a Personal Name: the Name Elena in Russian Dialects [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2019
The article focuses on Russian dialectal words, which are full homonyms of the name Elena or its derivatives (Alyona, Alyonka, Elenka, Lena, Lenka) included into the same morphosemantic field.
Lyubov A. Feoktistova
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Science of people and anthropology of man [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2008
A determination of a relationship between ethnology and anthropology with etymology as a starting point, loses a developmental dimension. Besides, a reduction in anthropology to the question:' What is a man' and discussion of 'general characteristics of ...
Kovačević Ivan
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Onomatological and etymological questions on the ritual masks and folk customs of the Greek festival Calendar

open access: yesNeograeca Bohemica, 2020
These short notes discuss the specific names of the disguise and mask rituals of the Greek folk calendar cycle, their probable etymology, and theories elaborated thus far on their origin.
Walter Puchner
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The Onomasticon of “Stolbists” [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2019
The article studies proper names (toponyms and anthroponyms) and specific terms used among the “Stolbists,” a group of people practicing free climbing (without rigging equipment) on the rocks of the Stolby (“Pillars”) Nature Reserve in the vicinities of ...
Liliya Z. Podberezkina
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A MEMORIAL TO THE ORAL HERITAGE OF SIBERIAN TATARS

open access: yesUluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2018
The compilation and initial examination of the Siberian Tatar folk literature heritage was initiated by German scholar W. W. Ladloff in the second half of the XIX.
Ramilya YARULLİNA YILDIRIM
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THE CRAFT MASTERY OF FOLK ARTISANS IN ROMANIA BEFORE AND AFTER 1989 [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Română de Sociologie, 2016
The article deals with a series of aspects defining the “craftwork” process as a technical and artistic effort among the contemporary representatives of the peasant traditions in Romania.
MARIN CONSTANTIN
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