FOLKLORIC ONYMS OF THE DARGIN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the study of onomastic units in the works of folklore of the Dargins. As an illustrative material, the authors use collections of Dargin folklore, prepared on the basis of folklore expeditions to rural settlements in the second half of the XX and at the beginning of the XXI centuries, by the famous Dargin folklorist Rasul Bagomedov “Daimsi lami” (Eternal flame) – 1977, “Dargala halkyla haburti” (Dargin folk tales) – 2006, “Dargala halkyla pagmula zurkhIyab” (Rainbow of the Dargin folk art) – 2008, “UrkIila timkh” (Heartbeat) – 2009. The researchers focus on the structure and semantics of fixed onomastic units. The work studies folklore and onyms represented in these books, what helps to determine the language affiliation of proper nouns.