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Avilin T. V. Areal studies of some popular Russian astronyms based on the astronymic collection of Ural Federal University with using of vocabulary materials

Tsimafei V. AVILIN — Junior Researcher, The Center for the Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature researches of the National Academy of Sciences (Belarus, Minsk)
E‑mail: aviti@yandex.ru

 

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ABSTRACT. The paper presents for the first time the results of mapping of some popular on the territory of Russia astronyms against the background of other East Slavic astronymical material. The astronyms used in the work are taken from the Astronymical file cabinet of the toponymic expedition of the Ural Federal University, as well as from the personal database of the author, based both on the results of field expeditions across the territory of Belarus and astronyms found in regional dictionaries, individual monographs, and articles. The following astronyms were selected: Kichiga/i, Volosozhar/y, Visozhar/y, Kurochka (the Hen), Resheto (the Sieve), Volosyni, Utinoe gnezdo (the Duck nest), Koromyslo (the Yoke), Krest (the Cross), Los’ (the Elk), Voz (the Cart), Semizvezdie (the Seven Stars), Kovsh (the Dipper). With the same semantic-motivational model of many astronyms, expressive areal distributions of their specific onyms are observed. Thus, the presence of astronyms, typical simultaneously for the territory of the Baltic States, the western and southwestern part of the Russian Federation, as well as Belarus, Ukraine and Poland clearly reflects complex multi-stage migration processes. The opposition areas of Kichiga-Kichigi, Volosozhar-Volosozhary, Visozhar-Visozhary are defined and previously not presented in the works of other authors and requiring subsequent analysis using linguistic and ethnographic data. It should be especially noted that the methodological approach of mapping linguistic material over large areas, when the maximum geographical unit referenced to an onym is the district (geographic coordinates of the district center) and the minimum is the inhabited locality, give fundamentally new results of areal distribution. The paper presents the results of mapping some popular astronyms on the territory of Russia. In particular, various astronomical systems have been identified for the Urals, Siberia, parts of North-West Russia on the one hand, and the western part of North-West and Central Russia, together with the Central Black Earth Region on the other.

 

KEYWORDS: astronymy, folk astronomy, areal studies, areal linguistics

 

УДК 811.161.1’373.22:524.3
DOI 10.31250/2618-8600-2019-3(5)-181-192

 

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