Pellinen, N. A. THE LINGUISTIC IMAGE OF AN ORPHAN IN KARELIAN DIALECTS. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2026;48(7):38–42. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2026.1364


Russian language. Languages of the peoples of Russia

THE LINGUISTIC IMAGE OF AN ORPHAN IN KARELIAN DIALECTS

Pellinen
N. A. 		Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Keywords:
Karelian language
ethnolinguistics
word formation
linguistic image
orphan child		 Summary: The paper analyzes Karelian lexical units associated with the image of an orphan from an ethnolinguistic perspective. Using techniques of etymological and comparative analysis and methods of linguistic reconstruction, the author attempts to understand the nature of direct nominations (e. g., orbo (orphan) or tuattopuoli (stepfather)), as well as the mechanisms of semantic transfer in poetic allegories (e. g., armotoi (deprived of parental affection)). The author discusses the origin and productivity of the suffixes -(in)tim(A), -(in)dAm, -(in)dim in derivation of substitutive kinship lexical items. The lexicon analysis draws on data from dictionaries of Karelian and related languages, author’s field observations, phraseology, toponymy, and folklore texts. The analysis confirms that the word-formation patterns of the lexical-semantic group “orphan” in Karelian and other Baltic-Finnic languages share a common origin. An important aspect of understanding the linguistic image of an orphaned child is the sympathy for their fate seen in the way they are named, as opposed to the image of an illegitimate child.



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