Possibly oriental elements in slavonic folklore. Mamuna [Part 1]
Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, cilt.134, sa.2, ss.97-102, 2017 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
- Cilt numarası: 134 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2017
- Doi Numarası: 10.4467/20834624sl.17.008.7082
- Dergi Adı: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.97-102
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Etymology, Folklore, Mythology, Oriental, Slavonic
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
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.