Из блокнота участника полесских экспедиций (1. куміна вода; 2ю Чагошчы и Чугайка; 3. крычаць як бугары)
FROM THE NOTES OF A PARTICIPANT OF EXPEDITIONS TO POLESIE: KUMINA VADA, CHAKHOSHCHYI CHUKHAYKA, KRYCHAT’ YAK BOUGARY

Summary/Abstract: Nikita I. Tolstoy introduced to studies on Polesie “a South-Slavonic perspective”. Its value is corroborated in the present text with an analysis of a few archaic words and phrases present in Belorussian dialects of the region. The primary sens of expressions kumina vadá, krychat’ yak bougary and proper names Chákhoshchy, Chukháyka, recorded by the author in southern Belorussia, can be established by comparative analysis based on dialectological data. The phrase kumina vadá ‘whirlpool’, as well as the very term kumá ‘a cave where water whirls’, may be linked to the form kum as a taboo term for the devil. The proper names Chákhoshchy, Chukháyka in Turovshchyzna are Proto-Slavonic archaisms and can be explicated through juxtaposition with the Slovene and Croatian name Chagoshche, and the Slovak verb chukhat’ ‘to watch for somebody’. The phrase krychat’ yak bougary ‘to talk, discuss something in a loud voice’ can be associated with the Croatian bügariti ‘shout, shriek’, ‘to lament over the deceased’ and Dalmatian bügariti ‘to sing old folk songs with specific tunes (in a specific way).’ The hypothesis is rendered more probable in the light of Balkan influences in Belorussian dialects, such as brynza, komarnik, turlik.

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