Evdokia Sorochanu uncovers ethnocultural parallels in bread product names among Gagauz, Bulgarians, and Moldovans, suggesting a rich ritual significance.
In the report by Evdokia Sorochanu “Ethnocultural Parallels in the Names of Bread Products among the Gagauz, Bulgarians and Moldovans” the semantics and symbolism of ritual bread products and their names in the Gagauz dialects will be considered. Ethnographic material indicates that the Gagauz traditional system of flour and bread products was formed on the basis of archaic Turkic elements, which were subsequently layered with Balkan and South Bessarabian borrowings. Ethnolinguistic analysis showed that the Bulgarian and Romanian languages played a special role in the formation of the culinary ritual terminology of the Gagauz language. Many ethnocultural parallels were identified in the names of bread products among these peoples.
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