Denominations of traditional hair-styles and ways of using head-scarves in Bulgarian folk costumes

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Linguistic and ethnographic comparative analysis of denominations of traditional Bulgarian female head-scarves and hair-styles — сокай, каица,naa and скапа (скепа/шкепи) reveals their meanings and their belonging to three groups of languages: Iranian — сокай, meaning ‘horn’, ‘hornlike’, ‘putting the headscarf on a horn’, Ugric — каица‘hair on the head’, ‘a plait of hair’; Turkic — naa‘tie’, ‘connection’, ‘thread’ and скапа/скепа/ шкепи ‘wrapping’, ‘case’, ‘container for hair/plaits’. The results of the conducted analysis coincide with the data of archeological studies of the ethnogenesis of ancient Bulgarians according to which their composition comprises three ethnolinguistic groups — Iranian, Ugric and Turkic

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folk costume, ritual requisite, Iranian, Turkic, Proto-Bulgarian, Ugrians

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