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The Romani oikonym Požom(b)a 'Bratislava'

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2017

Abstract

The paper argues that the Romani oikonym Pozom(b)a 'Bratislava' is a loanword of the dialectal Hungarian inessive-illative case form Pozsomba 'in/to Bratislava' and describes the oikonym's dialectological and historical linguistic position among the various Romani names of the city.