The names and motivation of the Kazakh national sports
The names and motivation of the Kazakh national sports

Summary/Abstract: The current research is devoted to the issue of giving name/title and (nomination), its motivation. The title is considered in various scientific aspects as the main object of science which is called onomaciology. Among them the titles of the national sports and games, as well as their approbation. The author intends to analyze the issue of Kazakh national sports, nomination of game titles and their motivation. Thus, the scientific aspect of the given research includes the content of the Kazakh national sports, the names of the games and ways of its transfer. The study of research subject in detail («indete zertteu» A. Kaidar) is based on the theory of «internal form» (V. Humboldt). The reason is that this theory is crucial in revealing the inner content of the national realities, identifying their demotivative (obsolete motivation), remotivative (revival of motivation, its birth). It is not enough for contemporary science to reveal the Kazakh national sports and definitions of games’ names. Within the ambit of modern anthropological paradigm, the recognition of the native tongue as an internal phenomenon is actual. It proves the concept of Humboldt that the inner form of the language is related to the lifestyle of the ethnos and its national identity. The empirical material of the research is aikel, bugynai (children’s games), zhedesh (hiding cup), eshmek (bone of goat), koimek (bone of sheep), khan (asyk game), myrshym (youth game) etc., simple lexical units; aigolek, aikulak (evening children's games), kyzbori (evening youth games), baltamtap (youth game) and other titles of national games were analyzed. From the point of view of the onomastics process, it can be seen that there are two stages in the formation of each names given above. The first stage consists of motives that lead to the formation of names, and in the second stage the names are formed according to the laws of language development (abstraction, transformation, etc.). For example, kures, zharys, altybakan, aksuiek, sokyrteke, karakulak, aigolek; depending the type of balls kyzmaidop, kazandop, kakpadop, tospadop; games about finding something inemtap, baltamtap; depending the types of whip kuderi kamshy, doiyr kamshy, dure kamshy; serekkulak, kyzbori, sakkulak, tenge ilu, ulek pen tailak etc. all the game names can be found as complex ones, that have the subconscious units on the basis of the original meaning of the initial elements. Therefore, it is essential that the ethnical approach to studying the motivational nature of national sports and games’ names is of great importance.

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