Фразеологічні одиниці з ойконімним і відойконімним компонентами як свідчення історичної пам’яті українців
Phraseological items with oikonym and deoikonym components as manifestation of the Ukrainians’ historical memory

Summary/Abstract: The paper’s subject is tracing the historical memory of the Ukrainian people as evidenced in (broadly understood) phraseological items that contain oikonyms as well asadjectives derived from oikonyms, and refl ect the 19th c. Ukrainians’ perception of theirhistory and neighbouring countries, and also their everyday life, local customs and memorable occurrences related to some inhabited places both in Dnieper Ukraine, then belongingto the Russian Empire, and in Western Ukraine, then part of the Austrian (after 1867,Austrian-Hungarian) Empire. Some of the phraseological units discussed in the paper anddrawn from M. Nomys’ 1864 collection “Ukrainian sayings, proverbs and the like” arerecorded in modern dictionaries, while the others are only found in the 19th - early 20th c.dictionaries. The author attempts to elucidate the origin and meaning of phraseologismsthat are incomprehensible for Present-day Ukrainian speakers. In her reconstruction ofrelevant fragments of the 19th c. Ukrainians’ world picture, she uses the methods of historical-linguistic and linguistic-cultural analysis, also taking into account extralinguistic data.

• Details
• Contents