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Названия базовых элементов национального костюма в прамордовском языке
The Proto-Mordvin names of the basic elements of the national costume

Author(s): Ekaterina M. Devyatkina
Subject(s): Language studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Институт языкознания Российской академии наук
Keywords: Mordvin languages, Erzya, Moksha, etymology

Summary/Abstract: The article is deedicated to the reconstruction of the Proto-Mordvin names of clothing, some of them are surely reconstructed to Proto-Mordvin. The national Mordvin costume continues its development and improvement nowadays. There are a large number of the Turkic and Russian borrowings in the Erzya and Moksha languages.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 04 (15)
  • Page Range: 66-82
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Russian
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