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The Old East Slavic toponym Kyjevъ in the Arab-Muslim geographical literature

Publication date: 30.06.2020

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2020, Volume 137, Issue 2, pp. 123 - 133

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.20.010.12442

Authors

Andrii Danylenko
Pace University, New York
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The Old East Slavic toponym Kyjevъ in the Arab-Muslim geographical literature

Abstract

The article deals with the transcriptions of the Old East Slavic toponym Kyjevъas found in the Arabic classical geographical literature. The author critically assesses the latest contributions to the study of this toponym and the respective readings offered by the orientalists since the times of Christian Martin Frähn. Based on the well-known readings and paleographic reconstructions, the author elaborates on several formative models (stemmata) of the Arabic transcriptions of the toponym Kyjevъ which are all interrelated and chronologically attuned to the prehistorical change kū- kī in Common Slavic.

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2020, Volume 137, Issue 2, pp. 123 - 133

Article type: Original article

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The Old East Slavic toponym Kyjevъ in the Arab-Muslim geographical literature

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The Old East Slavic toponym Kyjevъ in the Arab-Muslim geographical literature

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Pace University, New York

Published at: 30.06.2020

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