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Very few people know that a possibility of reconstructing protolanguages or protoforms was probably first suggested as early as in the 16th century by Miechowita while discussing the origin of the name of Hungarians and that of Yugra.... more
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      PhilologyLanguagesHistoryHistorical Geography
In article, an analyse of ethnonyms included in so called Bavarian Geographer, a historical source from 9th – early 10th century, is given. Actual state of scientific research on tribal names is summarized, latinized transcritions of the... more
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      EthnohistoryHistorical GeographyMedieval LiteratureMedieval History
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      Asian StudiesAnthropologyEthnographySocial and Cultural Anthropology
The purpose of the article is to review the question of the use of the Proto-Polish ethnonym Polanie. According to the opinion traditionally adopted in historiography, this name referred to one of the tribes inhabiting Greater Poland (the... more
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      HistoryEthnohistoryMedieval HistorySlavic Languages
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      Ethnic StudiesThai StudiesLinguistic AnthropologyRace and Ethnicity
This chapter describes how ethnic identifications, language and religion in present-day Cabetigo have been affected by the Thai and Islamic influences described in previous chapters. While the Muslims in Cabetigo are comfortably bilingual... more
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      Ethnic StudiesAnthropologySocial AnthropologySelf and Identity
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      HistoryGeographyHistorical GeographyOttoman History
This article deals with the usage and combinability of words from the synonymic rows Rusʹ/Rossiia/Russiia, russkii/rossiiskii/rosskii, and russkie/rossiiane/rossy, on the basis of the Catalogue of the Kievan Metropolitans, from the early... more
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      18th CenturyOrthographyHistory Of Russian Language, Old Church SlavonicEthnonymics
In contemporary Russian speech we can see a competition between a number of ethonyms, standing for the major population of some countries, and relevant inhabitants’ names in general, e.g., russkie ‘ethnic Russians; East Slavic ethnic... more
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      Russian StudiesSociolinguisticsIdentity (Culture)Corpus Linguistics
The paper deals with the ethnicity manifesting itself in the list of the saints’ ethnonymic cognomens based on the complete Orthodox Synaxarium (edited by hieromonk Macarius of Simonopetra in French and translated into Russian in 2011) as... more
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      HagiographyGreek LanguageOnomasticsOrthodox Theology
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      PhilologyAnthropological LinguisticsHumanitiesLanguages and Linguistics
This paper touches upon the expressive people’s names, which do not contain negative connotations: first of all these are solemn endonyms (based on data of Latin, Classical Hebrew, English, and especially, Russian), and also some ancient... more
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      StylisticsOld Church SlavonicLinguistic stylisticsRussian Language
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      OnomasticsNovgorod, Pskov, Russian regionsAnthroponymyEthnonymics