Slavic Studies

"Polish jarmułka ‘Jewish skullcap’ is generally considered to be an old Turkish loanword. In Bohdan A.  Struminsky’s 1987 article this etymology is contested and replaced with a Latin one. However, Struminsky failed to present convincing arguments against the Turkish origin of the Polish word and his  Latin explanation does not seem absolutely perfect either. This article critically examines Struminsky’s  study and provides specific arguments against the Turkish trail. The etymology and the evolution of  both the guise and the meanings of Polish jarmułka appear to be more complicated than previously
thought; thus, the present article should be looked on as picking up an interrupted discussion and,
in addition, an invitation to reexamination of the Latin etymology and the semantic aspects of all
explanations suggested so far."

""Abstract (A new dictionary of Turkic loanwords in the Balkan and Carpathian languages
and Ukrainian banuš ‘a sort of mamaliga’):

Some methodological problems of  a new dictionary project are discussed here. It is also argued against the suggestion that the Ukrainian word banuš ‘a sort of mamaliga’ is a derivative of Turkish bal ‘honey’.
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Only Polish words from Marcin Paszkowski’s “Dictionary” have been published up to now while their Turkish equivalents have never been edited although two scholars (Ananiasz Zajączkowski 1938 and Stanisław Stachowski 1989) intended to do so. In this article the reasons for this situation are discussed and explained, as well as a solution is suggested as to how the source can be useful.

""Reason: In the past few years, there have been many discussions about the identity of the contemporary Macedonian nation, especially about the question whether from a historical aspect, it begins in the Middle Ages with the immigration of the Slavs in the Balkans or it may or should be tied to the older ancient Balkan populations. Moreover, the arguments of these dilemmas are seeked in several areas i.e. levels: genetics, language, political history, etc. This lecture is not focused on the argumentation of none of these concepts, but tends to show the influence of the religions in the millennial constitution of the individual and collective identity of the residents of Macedonia. The author will try to demonstrate through several most illustrative examples that some mythical – religious structures can be monitored on this territory constantly, from ancient history to present day, sometimes lasting for 7000 years. These are archetypal phenomena that are not only trans-temporal, trans-cultural and trans-national, but trans-religious as well. They freely move from one culture to another, from one religion to another, changing only their formal features, and their substantial and lasting symbolical and semiotic strands can be traced from century to century and from millennium to millennium.
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The bibliography provides a list of all known English-language publications by Juri M. Lotman (including in co-authorship and reprints), in chronological order, described de visu. The first English translation of J. Lotman’s work appeared in 1973, altogether there is 109 entries in the list. The bibliography demonstrates that in the 1970s and 1980s, most of the translations were published in the context of slavistics, whereas after 2000 Lotman’s work starts to appear in the anthologies of general semiotics.