POSSIBLY ORIENTAL ELEMENTS IN SLAVONIC FOLKLORE. MAMUNA [PART 1]

Kamil Stachowski; Olaf Stachowski

POSSIBLY ORIENTAL ELEMENTS IN SLAVONIC FOLKLORE. MAMUNA [PART 1]

Publication date: 18.09.2017

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2017, Volume 134, Issue 2, pp. 97 - 102

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.17.008.7082

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Abstract

A specialist in Middle Eastern languages will likely be quick to associate Pol. mamuna ‘an ape-like mythological creature’ with Ar./Pers./Tkc. majmun ‘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.

A specialist in Middle Eastern languages will likely be quick to associate Pol. mamuna ‘an ape-like mythological creature’ with Ar./Pers./Tkc. majmun ‘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.

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Slavonic, Oriental, etymology, mythology, folklore

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2017, Volume 134, Issue 2, pp. 97 - 102

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.17.008.7082

Article type: Original article

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POSSIBLY ORIENTAL ELEMENTS IN SLAVONIC FOLKLORE. MAMUNA [PART 1]

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POSSIBLY ORIENTAL ELEMENTS IN SLAVONIC FOLKLORE. MAMUNA [PART 1]

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Kamil Stachowski

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5909-035X

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Olaf Stachowski

Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Published at: 18.09.2017

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