Volume 143, Issue 1

2026

Publication date: 20.02.2026

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The publication has been supported by a grant from the Faculty of Philology under the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University.

Cover designer: Paweł Bigos.

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Editorial team

Editor-in-Chief Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld

Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief Anna Tereszkiewicz

Additional redactors Kamil Stachowski

Language Editor Ann Cardwell

Issue content

The etymology of Turkish dialectal hörtük ‘wound’

Hüseyin Gökçe

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 143, Issue 1, 2026, pp. 1-7

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.26.001.23148

This study investigates the etymology of the word hörtük ‘wound’ used in Turkish dialects which has not previously been examined in detail. The study utilizes data from Turkish dialects, historical texts, and other Turkic languages. It argues that hörtük derives from the verb bert- through a series of phonological changes (bert- > bört- > *pört- > *hört-). The findings contribute to understanding phonological change patterns in Turkic languages and have implications for lexicographic classification in the Derleme Sözlüğü.

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Lower-case russia: Decapitalization, neologisms and mock Russian as wartime resistance in Ukraine

Petro Katerynych

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 143, Issue 1, 2026, pp. 9-25

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.26.002.23149

This article traces three wartime speech practices – decapitalization, derogatory neologisms (rusnia, rashyzm), and “Mock Russian” spellings – that Ukrainians deploy to demote the aggressor symbolically. We analyze five sub-corpora totalling ≈ 179.3 million tokens (incl. 2.1 million tweets, ~ 34 M tokens) gathered between February 2022 and December 2024. Lower-case росія/путін overtook canonical spellings within six weeks of the full-scale invasion, while the share of novel slurs in Russia-referencing vocabulary rose from < 5% pre-invasion to ≈ 35–39% by late 2024 (with an early-2022 surge). Mixed-script parodies further recast Russian as linguistically defective. We argue that these graphic and lexical moves function as de-colonial speech acts that renegotiate linguistic hierarchy in real time. The study provides a data-driven model for tracking symbolic power shifts in conflict zones and extends post-colonial sociolinguistics to the Russo-Ukrainian war.

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Old Norse-Icelandic veðrviti: Weathervane or standard, status marker?

William Sayers

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 143, Issue 1, 2026, pp. 27-41

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.26.003.23150

The thirteenth-century form veðrviti represents a folk etymology with a recast signification. Despite the misnomer of the literate period, the veðrviti of early Norse letters was not a ship’s weathervane atop the mast but a stem-mounted metal marker of the worth and thus identity of the most prominent man on board. This eminence was also expressed in ship and crew size, and outfitting, and opulent ornamentation of highly visible, richly symbolic, more than functionally essential ship’s parts and gear. The principal evidence for this lexical evolution is drawn from the sagas of Norwegian kings.

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Yarasa – Revisiting the Turkish name for bat

Marek Stachowski

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, Volume 143, Issue 1, 2026, pp. 43-47

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.26.004.23151

A recently discovered Old Uyghur variant of the Turkic name for bat is difficult to explain. This author presents his view on the structure and the development of this word, as well as of several other forms in the Turkic languages.

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Słowa kluczowe: hörtük, Turkish dialects, etymology, wound, decapitalization, Mock Russian, wartime, sociolinguistics, de-colonial discourse, social status, Norse ships, standards, weathervanes, etymology, Turkic, Turkish, Mator, loanwords

Funding information

The publication has been supported by a grant from the Faculty of Philology under the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University.