Berezovich, E. L. FROM NORTH RUSSIAN LEXIS OF WEDDING: ETYMOLOGICAL-ETHNOLINGUISTIC NOTES // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2018. No 6 (175). DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2018.211


Linguistics

FROM NORTH RUSSIAN LEXIS OF WEDDING: ETYMOLOGICAL-ETHNOLINGUISTIC NOTES

Berezovich
E. L. 		Ural Federal University
Keywords:
North Russian dialects
wedding
wedding vocabulary
semantic reconstruction
etymology
ethnolinguistics		 Summary: The article considers lexis of the North Russian wedding ceremony, recorded by staff of the Toponymic expedition of the Ural University in Vologda and Kostroma regions: name of one of the wedding feasts (and in figurative meanings – gatherings with feasts in other family ceremonies) – Kostroma word tozminy, as well as names of uninvited guests appeared at the wedding feast self-willed, without invitation of the hosts – Vologda words chikali, sorokachi, Vologda and Kostroma word sychi, Kostroma words sukhontsy, galki, galchata. In the article these words are put in the broad context of dialect wedding vocabulary, vocabulary of folk festivals and visiting, as well as non-verbal components of the traditional wedding and the culture of hospitality. Based on these data, taking into account linguistic and phonetic characteristics, the author offers etymological interpretations for “dark” words or corrects the solutions previously offered in the literature. Presented linguistic commentary deepens the reading of “the text” of the entire wedding ceremony: by clarifying the internal form of analyzed words the original role-playing frames are restored, in which uninvited, but still expected guests are allowed to behave; connections of certain North Russian lexemes with symbolic wedding codes developed in detail in the Slavic folk culture are reconstructed.



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