ЭТНОЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКИЙ АНАЛИЗ ФИТОНИМОВ С КОМПОНЕНТОМ КУРИЦА/HUHN В РУССКОМ И НЕМЕЦКОМ ЯЗЫКАХ
ETHNOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF RUSSIAN AND GERMAN PLANT NAMES DERIVED FROM THE NOUN КУРИЦА/HUHN
Author(s): Elizabeta Jurievna MoiseevaSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: plant name (phytonym); bird name (ornithonym); ethnolinguistics; nominational feature; Russian language; German language;
Summary/Abstract: This paper is the first to comparatively analyze Russian and German plant names derived from the noun курица/Huhn. The analysis is based on studying the nominational features of plant names and involves the ethnocultural data on 56 plant names derived from the Russian noun курица and 124 phytonyms with the German component Huhn. The nominational features of Russian and German plant names have proven to be generally quite similar to some peculiar motivations. The ethnocultural idea of hen as a symbol of feminine and fertility is also expressed by the analyzed plant names in both Russian and German languages. A number of Russian and German phytonyms should be recognized as corrupt or reanalyzed forms. The reasons for their motivational uncertainty could vary from changes in the folk etymology up to mistakes made by the authors of botanical dictionaries. The nominational features of some plant names need further studying.
Journal: Ученые записки Казанского университета. Серия Гуманитарные науки
- Issue Year: 157/2015
- Issue No: 5
- Page Range: 98-111
- Page Count: 14
- Language: Russian