Names of the bathhouse spirits in the dialects of the Komi-Zyryan language
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About author:
E. A. Ajbabina Institute of Language, Literature and History, Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation, [email protected]
O. I. Nekrasova Institute of Language, Literature and History, Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation, [email protected]
O. I. Nekrasova Institute of Language, Literature and History, Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: house spirits are an important element of mythological representations that create the picture of the Komi world. The article is devoted to the linguistic analysis of dialect names of bathhouse inhabitants in the Komi language.
Objective: to carry out semantic and motivational analysis of lexical dialect units in the Komi-Zyryan language nominating bathhouse spirits.
Research materials: dictionaries (dialect and etimological dictionaries of the Komi-Zyryan language), articles on the mythology and folklore of the Komi, folklore collections, lexicographic sources of other Finno-Ugric languages.
Results and novelty of the research: for the first time, the work studies the names of the mythical inhabitants of a bathhouse in the Komi-Zyryan language in the onomasiological aspect. That enabled the identification of the features of the bathhouse spirit reflected in their names, which are relevant to native speakers. The methods and lexico-semantic models of nomination of a host and a hostess bathhouse spirits close in their functions and location are revealed. The comparison of Komi-Zyryan names of the bathhouse demons with correlated nominative units in closely related Permian languages has been carried out. It can be stated that the main feature motivating the names of the bathhouse spirits in the Komi-Zyryan language is the locative characteristic of a mythological character. The nomination by appearance is not relevant for native speakers of the Komi language.
Key words: Komi dialect vocabulary, mythonyms, bathhouse spirits, Permian languages, Finno-Ugric languages, Russian language, nomination principles, nomination models
Acknowledgments: the publication was prepared as part of the implementation of the state task of the Federal Research Center of the Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the state registration number of the project is FUUU-2021-0008 "Permian languages in the linguocultural space of the European North and the Urals".
For citation: Ajbabina E. A., Nekrasova O. I. Names of the bathhouse spirits in the dialects of the Komi-Zyryan language // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2023; 13 (1/52): 7–14.
Introduction: house spirits are an important element of mythological representations that create the picture of the Komi world. The article is devoted to the linguistic analysis of dialect names of bathhouse inhabitants in the Komi language.
Objective: to carry out semantic and motivational analysis of lexical dialect units in the Komi-Zyryan language nominating bathhouse spirits.
Research materials: dictionaries (dialect and etimological dictionaries of the Komi-Zyryan language), articles on the mythology and folklore of the Komi, folklore collections, lexicographic sources of other Finno-Ugric languages.
Results and novelty of the research: for the first time, the work studies the names of the mythical inhabitants of a bathhouse in the Komi-Zyryan language in the onomasiological aspect. That enabled the identification of the features of the bathhouse spirit reflected in their names, which are relevant to native speakers. The methods and lexico-semantic models of nomination of a host and a hostess bathhouse spirits close in their functions and location are revealed. The comparison of Komi-Zyryan names of the bathhouse demons with correlated nominative units in closely related Permian languages has been carried out. It can be stated that the main feature motivating the names of the bathhouse spirits in the Komi-Zyryan language is the locative characteristic of a mythological character. The nomination by appearance is not relevant for native speakers of the Komi language.
Key words: Komi dialect vocabulary, mythonyms, bathhouse spirits, Permian languages, Finno-Ugric languages, Russian language, nomination principles, nomination models
Acknowledgments: the publication was prepared as part of the implementation of the state task of the Federal Research Center of the Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the state registration number of the project is FUUU-2021-0008 "Permian languages in the linguocultural space of the European North and the Urals".
For citation: Ajbabina E. A., Nekrasova O. I. Names of the bathhouse spirits in the dialects of the Komi-Zyryan language // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2023; 13 (1/52): 7–14.
