The plant life in the onomastic worldview of the tatars

Gulshat Raisovna Galiullina; Gulfiya Kamilovna Khadieva; Zilya Mullakhmetovna Mukhametgalieva; Margarita Emilievna Dubrovina

doi:10.29051/el.v7iesp.7.16331

Authors

Gulshat Raisovna Galiullina Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6923-2190
Gulfiya Kamilovna Khadieva Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5316-4947
Zilya Mullakhmetovna Mukhametgalieva Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5763-6227
Margarita Emilievna Dubrovina St Petersburg University, St Petersburg, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7170-6217

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29051/el.v7iesp.7.16331

Keywords:

The Tatar Language, Onomastics, Linguoculturology, Ethnoculture, Phytonymy

Abstract

The onomastic worldview reflects the most important aspects of culture and history, world outlook and psychology of the people. The meaning of some onomastic units contains hidden informational layers of archaic mythological thinking. One of the most significant groups among those units includes names of the plant world. This article is aimed at demonstrating the specificity of the plant life representation in the onomastic worldview of the Tatars. The analysis involves interpretation of the meaning of toponyms and anthroponyms retaining repercussions of beliefs of the ancient Turks. The analysis was carried out on linguistic and culturological material by means of a complex of interdisciplinary methods and techniques. The conducted analysis revealed that the tradition of using names of flora as proper nouns traces its origin to the archaic forms of mythology, which conceived a tree as the supreme god’s symbol. The ancient naïve views of the Turks were transmitted to the modern onomastics of the Tatars. Due to its stability, the toponymic system retains the earliest views. In the anthroponymic system, despite the fact that many of ancient anthroponyms grew out of use, traditions and motives of naming continued when borrowing anthroponyms from other languages

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Author Biographies

Gulshat Raisovna Galiullina, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of Tatar Linguistics, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication

Gulfiya Kamilovna Khadieva, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Tatar Linguistics, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication

Zilya Mullakhmetovna Mukhametgalieva, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

Postgraduate student of the Department of Tatar Linguistics, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication

Margarita Emilievna Dubrovina, St Petersburg University, St Petersburg, Russia

Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Turkic Philology, Faculty of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg State University

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