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    "predatory beast" 豸 or "dog" 犭. Mò < mæk < *mˁak (貊 or 貉) was an "ancient ethnonym for non-Chinese people in northeast China" (cf. Korean Maek (貊) people)...
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    [smɪt] 'blacksmith' pó·təl pó·t·əl boter ['bo:tər] 'butter' šó·kəl šó·k·əl suiker ['sœɥkər] 'sugar' mó·kəl mɔ́·k·əl moker ['mo:kər] 'maul', 'sledgehammer'...
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  • linguistic, archaeological and genetic studies. The first mention of the ethnonym Albanoi occurred in the 2nd century AD by Ptolemy describing an Illyrian...
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  • be identified as letuvisy (летувicы) and are accused of stealing their ethnonym as well as the historic name of their homeland. Some Belarusian scholars...
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    Mirnong, are an indigenous Noongar people of southern Western Australia. The ethnonym Minang is etymologized to the word for south, minaq, which means that the...
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  • contradicted by the fact that Lyvian texts reports Illyrian toponyms and ethnonyms principally located in the core of the Illyrian kingdom (Ardiaean–Labeatan...
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