NOMINATIVE FEATURE “THE PLACE OF GROWTH” IN THE FLORONYMS OF MODERN POLISH LANGUAGE (IN THE EAST-SLAVIC BACKGROUND)

Abstract

The article discusses Polish and East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian) names of flowers, which reflect the sign of “place of growth”. Thus, the nominative feature in the studied floronyms may be belonging to a certain type of natural community, a tendency or ability to grow on soils of a certain quality, or growth in the wild (much less often – growing in specially man-made spaces). The author analyzes the names of flowering plants from the point of view of their etymology, including pointing out the connection with Latin botanical names, as well as possible correlations with Western European synonymous names; attention is paid to cases of complete and partial calcification, as well as names of hybrid structure. The presence of interlanguage correlations among the studied nominations, forming pairs, triads and four-component unities, is separately noted. The existence of these correspondences is explained by the history and interaction of the floronymic systems of the studied Slavic languages.