Semantic volume of the ethnonym roch in the Komi language
Institute of Language, Literature and History, Federal Research Center Komi Science Center, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation, tsypanov@mail.illhkomisc.ru
ABSTRACT
Introduction: in recent decades, the study of the semantic content of linguistic units, primarily lexical resources, has been actively developing in modern linguistics. However, in Komi and Perm linguistics, the study of lexical semantics has so far been carried out in fragments. The article is devoted to the study of diachronic changes in the meaning of the ethnonym roch ‘Russian’ in the Komi language, identification of the semantic volume of the lexeme, study of the dynamics of changes, and development of the meanings of the lexeme.
Objective: to reveal the most complete semantic volume of the Komi lexeme roch with the main meaning of ‘Russian’ both in the modern language and in terms of diachrony.
Research materials: the author’s personal archive, examples of the use of the Komi ethnonym roch ‘Russian’, words and lexicological phrases with this word, dictionaries of the Komi language of the XIX and XX centuries.
Results and novelty of the research: the article presents six lexical and semantic variants that make up the components of the semantic volume of the lexeme roch in the Komi language; the scheme of sequences of lexical and semantic variants development is revealed. For the first time, the article provides a complete description of the semantic volume of the ethnonym roch in the Komi language, identifies six lexical and semantic variants or co-meanings, identifies the scheme of diachronic sequence in their formation, and characterizes the features of their distribution in various texts.
Key words: Finno-Ugric languages, Permian languages, Komi language, lexicology, lexicography, ethnonyms, polysemy
Acknowledgements: the publication was prepared as part of the implementation of the state assignment of the Federal Research Center Komi Science Center, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, the state registration number of the project of the Institute of Language, Literature and History FUUU-2021-0008 “Permian Languages in Linguistic and Cultural Space of the European North and the Urals”.
For citation: Tsypanov E. A. Semantic volume of the ethnonym roch in the Komi language // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2025; 15 (1/60): 121–131.
