Lexicon of Albanian mythology: areal studies in the polylingual region of Azov Sea

Four villages with Albanian population are located in the Ukraine: Karakurt (Zhovtnevoe) set up in 1811 (Odessa region), Tyushki (Georgievka), Dzhandran (Gammovka) and Taz (Devninskoe) set up in 1862 (Zaporizh’a region). The analysis of lexica of the Albanian subdialect of the Ukraine shows the cont...

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Vydané v:Slavia Meridionalis Ročník 15; číslo 15; s. 261 - 273
Hlavný autor: Novik, Alexander A
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Warsaw Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk 01.01.2015
Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (ISS PAS)
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Albanian dialects
Albanian language
Animals
Beliefs
Black people
Characters
Children
Consultants
Dialects
Dogs
Fate
Foxes
Language and Literature Studies
Lexicon
Lexis
Meaning
Mythology
Regions
Terminology
Theoretical Linguistics
Transformation
Villages
Ukraine
lexis
Albanian dialects
mythology
ISSN:1233-6173, 2392-2400
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Shrnutí:Four villages with Albanian population are located in the Ukraine: Karakurt (Zhovtnevoe) set up in 1811 (Odessa region), Tyushki (Georgievka), Dzhandran (Gammovka) and Taz (Devninskoe) set up in 1862 (Zaporizh’a region). The analysis of lexica of the Albanian subdialect of the Ukraine shows the continuation of the use of mythological terminology between the districts of the South-Eastern Albania (Korça, Devoll, Kolonja) and the Albanian-speaking villages of the Azov Sea region. The Albanian subdialect of the Ukraine has no collective lexeme to designate all the representatives of the demonic world. The most common forms of denotation are these: nok janë të prastúrë (lit. ‘they are unclean’), shpírti nok i prastúrë (lit. ‘unclean spirit’). There are a large number of stories about the transformation of people into the animals – dogs, cats, goats, foxes, chickens etc. and even into things (the most common plot variant is about transformation of a man into a wheel). Also we observe the personification of the steppe wind among the Albanians of the Ukraine. Thus there is a special word for such a kind of wind in this subdialect – varalluzhg/ë, –a (‘varaluzhga’). The Balkan peoples believe that the fate of every individual is assigned by three mythological characters. Most of them, including the Albanians, consider that these three characters are female. They appear several hours after the child’s birth and assign its fate. The Albanians of the Ukraine keep these beliefs, but according to their system of mythological images, there are three men determining the child’s fate instead of three women. As the native consultants claim, these are three huge, tall and strong black men (tri burre qysh japin fatnë). Another variation on this theme comprises the stories about Christ’s disciples, the apostles and their followers, who can also determine the child’s fate.
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ISSN:1233-6173
2392-2400
DOI:10.11649/sm.2015.022