NOMINATIVE FEATURE “THE TIME OF FLOWERING” IN THE FLORONYMS OF POLISH, RUSSIAN, UKRAINIAN AND BELARUSIAN LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article discusses Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian names of flowers, in which the feature “the time of flowering” is nominatively fixed, so that these names an indication of flowering at a certain time of the year. The nominative feature in the studied floronyms is flowering in early spring and autumn (for indoor plants also in winter), which is generally uncharacteristic for plants and, thus, acquires a distinctive character. The author analyzes these floronyms from the point of view of their etymology, including pointing out possible connections with Latin nomenclature names. The analysis of the word-formation structure and motivation makes it possible to compile a list and semantic classification of the bases of the studied floronyms. The author also points out the presence of interlanguage correspondences and equivalents among them, which form dyads, triads and four-component unities; the presence of correspondences and equivalents is explained by the history of the formation and mutual influence of floronymic systems in Slavic languages.