TY - JOUR AU - Stachowski, Kamil AU - Stachowski, Olaf TI - <div id="cke_pastebin"> <p> Possibly oriental elements in slavonic folklore. <em>Mamuna </em>[part 2]</p> </div> JF - Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis VL - 2017 PY - 2017 DO = 10.4467/20834624SL.17.021.7095 SN - 1897-1059 C1 - 2083-4624 SP - 289 EP - 304 KW - Slavonic KW - Oriental KW - etymology KW - mythology KW - folklore N2 - <p style="text-align: justify;"> A specialist in Middle Eastern languages will likely be quick to associate Pol. <em>mamuna </em>‘an ape-like mythological creature’ with Ar./Pers./Tkc. <em>majmun </em>‘ape’. It is possible and indeed probable that this name is an Oriental borrowing applied to an ancient native belief, but a closer inspection reveals at least several other possibilities tangled in an ethnolinguistic web of potential conflations and contaminations. This paper presents the ethnographic background and some etymological ideas, though without as yet a definite answer.</p> UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/possibly-oriental-elements-in-slavonic-folklore-mamuna-part-2