YAKUT FIGURATIVE VERBS DESCRIBING HUMAN’S FIGURE COMPARED TO MONGOLIAN PARALLELS

Abstract

The article examines ways of semantics developing of Yakut figurative verbs describing the human figure, in comparison with their counterparts from the modern Mongolian language. The general and distinctive features of the semantics development are revealed. The relevance of the study is due to the need for further study of the Yakut-Mongolian contacts to clarify the Yakut language historical development. Examples from the “Big Explanatory Dictionary of the Yakut Language” and from the “Big Academic Mongolian-Russian Dictionary” are used as material. As the comparison of the lexical material with the Mongolian language shows, the figurative verbs of the Yakut language describing the human figure are basically the convergent development of semantics. Moreover, in the Yakut language, the direction of semantics is distinguished as concretization. It should also be noted that figurative Mongolian verbs are involved in describing almost all parts of the human body.