The Pleiades in the Belarusian Tradition: Folklore Texts and Linguistic Areal Studies
The Pleiades in the Belarusian Tradition: Folklore Texts and Linguistic Areal Studies
Author(s): Tsimafei AvilinSubject(s): Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum
Keywords: areal studies in linguistics; astronyms; Belarusian folk constellation names; constellations; folk names of constellations; Pleiades; Slavic languages; star folklore;
Summary/Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of Belarusian names for the Pleiades and their distribution in the territory of Belarus. Based on areal and ethnolinguistic studies, the author proposes the division of astronyms with the volos, vis, and stažar bases into two separate groups. Such an approach helps to understand parallels in astronyms of different groups and to provide another way of reconstructing the Old Slavonic astronym vłasiežjełišči.
Journal: Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 72
- Page Range: 141-158
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English