The original names of clothing in the Finno-Ugric languages: new etymologies
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Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the RAS, Institute of Linguistics of the RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article is devoted to the reconstruction of the clothing name in the proto-Uralic, Finno- Ugric and subsidiary Finno-Ugric proto-languages.
Objective: to analyze the origin of words describing clothing and footwear names in the Finno-Ugric languages, and to trace how the system of clothing names in the native vocabulary has changed over time in the
daughter Finno-Ugric languages.
Research materials: the existing most complete dictionaries of the Finno-Ugric languages.
Results and novelty of the research: the article reconstructed 13 new etymologies. As far as we can judge from the data of the reconstruction, the following dynamics was observed in the Finno-Ugric language speakers
in the system of clothing names: for the PU language (V–IV thousand BC) were reconstructed: the general name of clothing was *pVśV, *punV ‘pants’, *śuma ‘hat’, *üw ‘belt’, *wüŋä ‘belt’, and *l’ɨppe ‘shoes/leg wraps made
of skins’. The difference from primitive people actually differs only in the supposed presence of pants. In the third thousand BC, native speakers of the Finno-Ugric proto-language appeared wearing outerwear similar to a
‘shirt’ *śopa, ‘mittens’ *peśV, and ‘jewelry’ *śirV. Judging by the reconstructed names of clothing, significant development occurs in the future only in the Ob Ugric peoples at the beginning of our era, when there is a special
name for the ‘fur coat’ *săk and ‘dress’ *wūč.
Key words: Finno-Ugric languages, proto-Uralic, proto-Finno-Ugric, proto-Ugric, proto-Ob-Ugric, proto-Permian, Finno-Volgaic, etymologies, comparative historical linguistics, names of clothing.
Acknowledgments: the author expresses gratitude for the help in the preparation of the article and discussion of etymologies A. V. Dybo, M. K. Amelina. The article was prepared by the financial support of the RFBR №
18-012-00119 within the project “Interactive Atlas of the Uralic languages”.
For citation: Normanskaya Yu. V. The original names of clothing in the Finno-Ugric languages: new etymologies // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2020; 10 (2): 303–312.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article is devoted to the reconstruction of the clothing name in the proto-Uralic, Finno- Ugric and subsidiary Finno-Ugric proto-languages.
Objective: to analyze the origin of words describing clothing and footwear names in the Finno-Ugric languages, and to trace how the system of clothing names in the native vocabulary has changed over time in the
daughter Finno-Ugric languages.
Research materials: the existing most complete dictionaries of the Finno-Ugric languages.
Results and novelty of the research: the article reconstructed 13 new etymologies. As far as we can judge from the data of the reconstruction, the following dynamics was observed in the Finno-Ugric language speakers
in the system of clothing names: for the PU language (V–IV thousand BC) were reconstructed: the general name of clothing was *pVśV, *punV ‘pants’, *śuma ‘hat’, *üw ‘belt’, *wüŋä ‘belt’, and *l’ɨppe ‘shoes/leg wraps made
of skins’. The difference from primitive people actually differs only in the supposed presence of pants. In the third thousand BC, native speakers of the Finno-Ugric proto-language appeared wearing outerwear similar to a
‘shirt’ *śopa, ‘mittens’ *peśV, and ‘jewelry’ *śirV. Judging by the reconstructed names of clothing, significant development occurs in the future only in the Ob Ugric peoples at the beginning of our era, when there is a special
name for the ‘fur coat’ *săk and ‘dress’ *wūč.
Key words: Finno-Ugric languages, proto-Uralic, proto-Finno-Ugric, proto-Ugric, proto-Ob-Ugric, proto-Permian, Finno-Volgaic, etymologies, comparative historical linguistics, names of clothing.
Acknowledgments: the author expresses gratitude for the help in the preparation of the article and discussion of etymologies A. V. Dybo, M. K. Amelina. The article was prepared by the financial support of the RFBR №
18-012-00119 within the project “Interactive Atlas of the Uralic languages”.
For citation: Normanskaya Yu. V. The original names of clothing in the Finno-Ugric languages: new etymologies // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2020; 10 (2): 303–312.
