About One Understudied Monument of Russian Translated Historical and Geographical Literature
https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2019-80-4-72-77
Abstract
This article investigates an understudied monument of Russian historical and geographical literature of the end of the 17th – beginning of the 18th century, i.e. the description of Algeria and Tunisia translated from Latin. The article gives a brief description of the monument as a whole and analyses in detail one of the lexical-semantic groups – the names of various plants and their fruit (phytonyms). The author notes that, along with widespread phytonyms in Russian (grain, bread, apple, etc.), the text under study uses rare (dactyl ’date’) and even sporadic words not recorded in any other sources on the history of the Russian language (kalpiyaziz ’earth almond’).
Keywords
history of the Russian language,
historical lexicology,
monument of historical and geographical literature,
phytonyms
Supporting agencies: The article was written with the support of the grant of the Russian Foundation for basic research (RFBR) № 17–06– 00376 «Phytonymy of the Russian language in the diachronic aspect (XI–XVII centuries.)».
About the Author
A. S. Shchokin
Saint Petersburg State University
Russian Federation
Aleksej S. Shchokin, Cand. of Sci. (Philol.), Researcher, Larin Interdepartmental Dictionary Ofce, Department of Philology
Russian Federation
Aleksej S. Shchokin, Cand. of Sci. (Philol.), Researcher, Larin Interdepartmental Dictionary Ofce, Department of Philology
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Shchokin A.S. About One Understudied Monument of Russian Translated Historical and Geographical Literature. Russian language at school. 2019;80(4):72-77. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2019-80-4-72-77
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