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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2026.Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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Proverbium, 2019 This article provides a comparison between Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, German, French, English, Finnish, and Tajik proverbs with toponyms.
Mikhail Bredis, Olga Lomakina
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Raven’s Work in Tlingit Ethno-geography [PDF]
, 2019 Chapter in the publication: Holton, Gary and Thomas F.Thornton. (Eds.) Language and Toponymy in Alaska and Beyond: Papers in Honor of James Kari. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication no. 17.
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Thinking in Islands; the Portuguese Perception of the Indonesian Archipelago and Particularly of Sunda in Early Texts and Charts [PDF]
, 2012 This article discusses various early sources on the Indonesian archipelago. It starts with the status of knowledge before the first voyage of the Portuguese to the Moluccas from accounts of travellers to insular Southeast Asia in the Middle Ages and the ...
Langguth, S. (Svann)
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 29-52, March 2026.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Component land / lond in Old English Toponymy
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2019 The article is focused on the study of the linguistic unit land / lond as functioning in the toponymic system of Old English. The contextual examples of land-toponyms are drawn from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There is an attempt to reveal the role of the
Sergey V. Mukhin
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On the Finno-Ugric substratum in the hydronymy of the Tambov region
Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2020 The article discusses hydronymic topoformants on the territory of the Tambov region, related to the Finno-Ugric substrate. Their most common series are highlighted. For some toponyms, new etymologies are proposed.
E. M. Deviatkina
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Cuentos (In)Creíbles: Ethnography as Faithful Witnessing for Transborder Epistemologies
Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Through the careful analysis of the border‐crossing epistemologies that are collaboratively shared and validated by a fifth grader and ethnographer in liminal classroom spaces, we identify key methodological approaches for researchers working with border crossers to document the co‐production of knowledge among researchers and participants, to
Sarah Gallo, Melissa Adams Corral
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Marea: a Byzantine port in northern Egypt [PDF]
, 1982 African Studies Center Working Paper No ...
Gabel, Creighton, Petruso, Karl
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