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THE SLAVS’ ETHNO-CULTURAL VIEW OF BIRDS IN TERMS OF THE FOLK BOTANY

THE SLAVS’ ETHNO-CULTURAL VIEW OF BIRDS IN TERMS OF THE FOLK BOTANY


Author:  S.Yu. Dubrovina

Affiliation:  Yelets State University named after Ivan Bunin

Abstract: 

In the paper we analyse in the ethnosemantic context a fragment of the Russian botanic lexis - ornithological plants’ names, derived from the word “vorobey” (a sparrow).
The aims the research pursues are as follows:
-      to find out a) a cause of some names’ motivation in terms of ethnocultural characteristics of birds and b) a structural scheme of ornithological plants’ names;
-      to present a model of dialect terms based on the principles of the folk botanic nominations (general/particular).
A certain part of the folk botany vocabulary is used exclusively for medical purposes, thus constituting a layer of professional knowledge and entering both literary and scientific botanic language.
The number of names describing one culture of plants being diverse, their nomination depends on ethnocultural connotations.
Botanic terms derived from “the vorobey” word-stem are not numerous: N.I. Annenkov’s botanic dictionary gives approximately ten names many of which relate to different plants simultaneously. Our research allowed us to discover most significant nomination regularities:
-      sparrow-herbs realize a diminutive seme (sparrow sorrel – a little sparrow, sparrow millet –
 a tiny herb Anagallis, vorobyatnik – a small herb (generalised nomination));
-      these names point out to the wild-growing species that look like some botanic cultures (sparrow pea, sparrow millet), sparrow names often belonging to pea crops (Coronilla, Vicia, Lathyris, Medicago).
A few names are based on the association by similarity (sparrow tongue) or by application
 (Lysimachia).
In the sparrow millet (Anagallis) nomination we find the connotational component relating to
a folk image of the sparrow as a cheerful and dashing guy, a braggart and love affair hero; the plant can excite the mood (according to D. Simonovich) and medicine makes use of its “secret” characteristics. 
In conclusion we sum up ethnocultural observations devoted to the sparrow and try to examine the Russian botanic lexis of ornithonomic nature in a broader Common Slavic context.

Keywords:  folk botany, names of herbs, word image, zoonymical term, ethnocultural conceptualization of will, cultural semantics of herbs, bugloss, ox-like windows, ox tongue, ox tail, owse

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Pages:  110-118

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