The Orographic Lexicon in the Kildin Saami Language
The Orographic Lexicon in the Kildin Saami Language

Summary/Abstract: This article presents an analysis of the orographic lexicon in the Kildin Saami language. The structure of the language is described; a componential and culturological analysis of this particular lexical set is performed, and a comparison is made between the lexical meanings of Kildin Saami orographic lexemes as interpreted by the lexicographic and ethnographic sources from the late 19th - early 20th centuries and by the field materials collected in the early 21st century. The anthropocentricity of the Kildin Saami language material is demonstrated as apparent in the way the names of negative and positive topographic landforms are structured and particular features of the geographical environment are emphasised, as well as in the presence of metaphorical terms.

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