FEATURES OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH THE AAS “MOUTH” COMPONENT IN THE TUVAN LANGUAGE IN COMPARISON WITH RUSSIAN

Abstract

The article presents a semantic and comparative analysis of phraseological units with the component for the word mouth in Tuvan and Russian. Phraseological units of the Russian language with the component for the word mouth is widely studied, but in comparison with the Tuvan language they haven’t been considered. The purpose of the study is to identify similarities and differences in the semantics of phraseological units with the component for the word mouth in the Tuvan and Russian. To achieve the goal, the following tasks are set: to identify phraseological units with the component for the word mouth from lexicographic works of Tuvan and Russian languages; to distribute phraseological units into semantic groups to reveal similarities and differences of the phraseological units in the compared languages. The sources for collecting material are the “Tuva-Russian Phraseological Dictionary” by J.Sh. Khertek, from which 74 Tuvan phraseological units are chosen, and “The Big Phraseological Dictionary of the Russian Language” by V.N. Telia, from which 49 Russian phraseological units are taken. On the basis of the research the phraseological units with the components for the word mouth in the comparable languages are distributed into four semantic groups with similar meanings “talk, talker”; phraseological units with the meanings “to be silent”, “silent”; phraseological units with the meanings “food, drink; eat, drink”; phraseological units with the meaning “listen”; and phraseological units with meanings characteristic only for Russian or only for Tuvan were found. In the Tuvan it is the phraseological phrase with meanings: “regret”, “sufficient for life”, “young”, “cowardly”, “like to do something”. The units form Russian mean “greed”, “clever, cunning”, “smile and laughter”, “to miss”, with meaning “a lot of things to do”.