TURKIC BORROWINGS IN THE VOLGA SUBDIALECT OF THE MARI LANGUAGE(GAME VOCABULARY)

  • Maria Arkadyevna Klyucheva
    • Mari Research Institute of Language, Literature and Historynamed after V.M. Vasilyev
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35634/2224-9443-2023-17-2-198-211
Keywords: folk games, game vocabulary,, asemantic vocabulary, Volga-Kama language union, traditional culture of the Ural-Volga region, Finno-Ugric languages, Turkic languages, Volga subdialect of the Mari language, Meadow dialect of the Mari language, Russian dialects, Mari language, borrowings

Abstract

The paper discusses Turkic borrowings in the Volga subdialect of the Mari language (Meadow dialect). The thematic group to which our paper is devoted is game vocabulary: words and game terms in Mari folk games (spoken during the game and in narratives about games). The research is based on the material of publications, archival and modern field records. Field studies in recent years have shown that the Volga subdialect contains a specific game vocabulary that is not known in other dialects of the Mari language and missing in the linguistic and ethnographic literature. Also, some lexemes, although they are known in other dialects (not always in game meanings), have a peculiar phonetic characteristics of the Volga subdialect. The purpose of this paper is to present this vocabulary, to introduce it into scientific circulation. The article discusses 10 game lexemes of this kind (in the Volga subdialect): kapash ‘to grab’, potak ‘game of catch-up’, pashteŋge ‘game of catch-up’, chok ‘exclamation in the game of hide and seek’, choŋgyrla ‘hoop game’, kypchakla ‘doll game’, pakl’ak ‘game like skittles’, kozla-modyshla ‘game of astragalus’, chiraka ‘game like skittles’, maka-maka ‘blind man’s buff’. Most of them came to the Volga subdialect of the Mari language from Tatar. Thus, the Turkic influence on the Mari game culture and game vocabulary is especially active in the contact zones, in particular, in the southern regions of Mari El Republic bordering Chuvashia and Tatarstan, and the Volga subdialect is the most saturated with Turkisms subdialect of the Meadow Mari. At the same time, there are quite a lot of correspondences in the game vocabulary of the Volga subdialect and the Hill Mari. The analysis revealed that similar lexemes (Turkic borrowings) are also present in other Finno-Ugric languages: Udmurt, Mordovian languages, Komi, Hungarian, as well as in Russian dialects.

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Received 2022-12-28
Published 2023-06-26
Issue
Vol 17 No 2 (2023)
Section
Linguistics
Pages
198-211