NAMES OF THE STEPPE ASTER, ASTER AMELLUS, IN THE EAST POLESSIAN DIALECTS

Maryna POISTOHOVA,
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Senior Researcher of Department of Dialectology,
Institute for Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
4, Mykhaila Hrushevskoho St., Kyiv, 01001, Ukraine;
e-mail: poistogova@ukr.net
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7610-643X

Heading: DIALECTS
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract
The steppe aster plant, Aster amellus stands out in East Polessian dialects with its numerous nomens.
In the study area for the nomination of steppe aster there were names recorded that reach 30 forming bases. The names clearly reflect the various characteristics of the plant. Dialect speakers call it differently, taking various characteristic of this plant as a basis for nominations.
According to motivational features, the names are divided into several groups. Most often, the names reflect the flowering time of the plant, which is most common for it.
Many names are motivated by the external similarity in shape, color, size with other floral objects, zoonyms, objects and environmental phenomena, and so on.
Among other significant features of the plant, marked by dialect speakers there is the peculiarity of the growing in dense thickets, its frequent appearance.
The names also reflect the appearance of the plant, its uniqueness, the humans’ attitude to the plant.
The material testifies to a significant nominative variation of the steppe aster plant, Aster amellus in the East Polessian dialects.
All recorded names are derived.
Some names can be considered endemic, as they are recorded only in 1 settlement.
There are differences in the methods of nomination, monolexes – suffixal noun derivatives – are dominative. Occasionally, names can be created by compounding bases. There can also be the transfer of the name without any formal changes. Two-component names are less common.
Key words: East Polessian dialects, plant names, motivational features, derived nomens, methods of nomination.

LEGEND
ESUM – Melnychuk, O.S. (Ed.). (1982–2012). Etymological dictionary of the Ukrainian language: in 7 vols. Vol. 1. Kyiv: Naukova Dumka (in Ukr.).