Foreign lexical items in the lexicon of the Karaim language
Journal: Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting
Year: 2025

The focus of this article is on a comprehensive etymological lexical analysis of the Karaim language as a whole and its dialects. While the practice of at least partially examining entire foreign elements within a specific language is relatively common nowadays (cf. Haspelmath &amp; Tadmor 2009), Karaim has so far avoided this kind of comprehensive research with the literature focused around Zajączkowski (1959, 1961) and Jankowski (2013, 2015) providing papers focused either on diachronic develo