History of the protolanguage names of clothes and footwear in Nenets Cover Image

История исконных названий одежды и обуви в ненецком языке
History of the protolanguage names of clothes and footwear in Nenets

Author(s): Maria Konstantinovna Amelin, Juliya Victorovna Normanskaya
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Lexis
Published by: Институт языкознания Российской академии наук
Keywords: Nenets; the Proto-Samoyedic language; traditional clothes; traditional footwear; semantic reconstruction; etymology; borrowing

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the features of the traditional Nenets clothes, footwear and their details the names of which came to Nenets from the protolanguage. The attempt to define the differences between the Nenets subjects, described by these words, and the Proto-Samoyedic subjects by means of a method of semantic reconstruction is made in the article.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 02 (9)
  • Page Range: 013-061
  • Page Count: 49
  • Language: Russian