MODIFICATION OF RUSSIAN LEXIS IN MULTI-ETHNIC AREA
(WORDS WITH INITIAL LIQUID CONSONANTS) Cover Image

МОДИФИКАЦИЯ РУССКОЙ ЛЕКСИКИ В ПОЛИЭТНИЧЕСКОЙ ЗОНЕ (СЛОВА С НАЧАЛЬНЫМИ ПЛАВНЫМИ)
MODIFICATION OF RUSSIAN LEXIS IN MULTI-ETHNIC AREA (WORDS WITH INITIAL LIQUID CONSONANTS)

Author(s): Lubov Petrovna Mikhaylova
Subject(s): Philology
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: dialect lexicography; ethno-lingual contacts; phonetic processes; structural transformations; anlaut

Summary/Abstract: The author describes the lexis of Russian sub-dialects, that originated from the words with initial liquid consonants and modifiedphonemic structure of the root morpheme. The lexis is classified according to the detected processes of anlaut-transformation fromр- and л-: when the liquid consonant is lost (алаки < лалаки, рукотер < укотерат, иловый < лиловый, ебро < ребро); whena prosthetic vowel before a liquid consonant is manifested (орайский < райский, улупы < лупы); when there is metathesis of initialsounds (урбáнок < рубáнок, ерестр < реестр); exchange of liquid tones (рипок < липок, лянда < рянда). The features given aboveare found out in the group of words with secondary, “intermediate” р-/л-anlaut (арабéльки < грабельки, улько́за < глюко́за). Theauthor also gives an areal description of modified lexis. The changes are caused by the impact of agglutinating languages on theRussian lexis during the long co-existence of ethnics on the Russian territory.