ETHNOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE NAMES OF MEDICINAL AND FOOD PLANTS GROWING IN SOUTHERN YAKUTIA

Abstract

The article discusses principles of nomination of medicinal plants growing in southern Yakutia. The population of the districts still uses unique recipes and original methods of folk healers, herbalists, shamans, including centuries-old experience of treatment with local plants. The total number of analyzed units is 20 items. According to the principle of nomination of the names of medicinal plants of the specified vocabulary, the researchers have differentiated them into the following groups: 1) names, which include the place of growth of plants; 2) names, which reflect the organoleptic features of plants; 3) names, which include the form of plants; 4) units, which include the names for the living world. The purpose of the article is to conduct an ethnolinguistic analysis of the names of medicinal and food plants growing in southern Yakutia. The information for the analysis was the phytonyms presented in the dictionaries of the Yakut language by E.K. Pekarsky and the multi-volume academic Big Explanatory Dictionary of the Yakut language under the general editorship of P.A. Sleptsov, which most fully covers the vocabulary of the Yakut language, expeditionary materials of the authors. According to the structural diversity, one-component, two-component and multicomponent lexical units are defined and described. Multicomponent nominations include two nominations consisting of three words.