Expressing the concept for ‛skull, brainpan’ in the dialects of the Udmurt language Cover Image

Выражение понятия ‛череп, черепная коробка’ в диалектах удмуртского языка
Expressing the concept for ‛skull, brainpan’ in the dialects of the Udmurt language

Author(s): Sergei A. Maksimov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Институт языкознания Российской академии наук

Summary/Abstract: In a number of Uralic languages one of the two strategies for naming skull is used: head + bone or head + container: basket, bucket, cup. In other languages, however, both strategies coexist. It appears that the strategy head + bone should be reconstructed for proto-Uralic, and the strategy (head) + container emerges later, in the proto-Finno-Ugric.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 02 (3)
  • Page Range: 36-46
  • Page Count: 11