{"id":12804,"date":"2026-03-11T15:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/?page_id=12804"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:26:36","slug":"geortonim-pokrov-presvyatoyi-bogorodytsi-leksychni-i-gramatychni-varianty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/vypusky-zhurnalu\/2025-2\/zbirnyk-kultura-slova-103-2025-2\/geortonim-pokrov-presvyatoyi-bogorodytsi-leksychni-i-gramatychni-varianty.html","title":{"rendered":"GEORTHONYM OF THE PROTECTION OF THE MOST HOLY THEOTOKOS: LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL VARIANTS"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n

Natalia PURYAEVA,<\/strong>
\nCandidate of Philological Sciences, Senior Researcher, Department of History of the Ukrainian Language and Onomastics,
\nInstitute of the Ukrainian Language of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
\n4 Mykhaila Hrushevskoho St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine;
\ne-mail: rondelyk@ukr.net
\nORCID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0986-4676<\/p>\n

Heading<\/strong>: RELIGIOUS STYLE: HISTORY AND PRESENT
\nLanguage<\/strong>: Ukrainian<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>
\nThe article examines the etymology and lexical-semantic development of the georthonym Pokr\u00f3va Presvyatoy Bogoroditsy<\/em>, as well as its derived onymes (iconym, ideonym, agionym) and the variants Pokr\u00f3va, Pokrova,<\/em> and Pokrovy.<\/em> It is shown that the polysemantic nature of the original Greek lexeme \u2013 which, through translation, gave rise to the Church Slavonic and subsequently Ukrainian name of the feast \u2013 combines both the objective and abstract meanings of \u201ccovering \/ cloak\u201d and \u201cprotection \/ intercession.\u201d This semantic richness led to a reinterpretation of the lexeme Pokr\u00f3va<\/em> and changes in its grammatical forms.
\nIn particular, the form Pokr\u00f3va,<\/em> created by reducing the georthonymic model [sviato] + genitive with the Church Slavonic inflection –a<\/em>, underwent a reinterpretation: the masculine genitive noun Pokr\u00f3va<\/em> began to be perceived as a form of a feminine noun. This, in turn, led to the emergence of a new form in Russian Orthodox usage \u2013 Pokrovy.<\/em> Simultaneously, the lexeme Pokrovy<\/em> underwent semantic reinterpretation and came to be perceived as an epithet of the Virgin Mary \u2013 Bogoroditsa Pokrov\u0430<\/em>, by analogy with Bogoroditsa Pyrohoshcha<\/em> and Bogoroditsa Oranta<\/em>.
\nKey words<\/strong>: Pokrova, Pokrovy, Pokr\u043eva Presvyatoy Bogoroditsy, georthonym, ideonym, iconym, agionym.<\/p>\n

REFERENCES<\/strong>
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LEGEND<\/strong>
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\n\u041d\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0441 \u2013 Nomys, M. (Ed.). (1993). Compiled Ukrainian proverbs, sayings and such. Collections of Opanas Markovych and others. Republished by Dmytro Gulei. Toronto \u2013 Kyiv, (in Ukr.).
\n\u041f\u043e\u043a\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u2013 Pokrova of the Most Holy Theotokos. URL: https:\/\/cerkva.kiev.ua\/news\/119.html (in Ukr.).","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Natalia PURYAEVA, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Senior Researcher, Department of History of the Ukrainian Language and Onomastics, Institute of the Ukrainian Language of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; 4 Mykhaila Hrushevskoho St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine; e-mail: rondelyk@ukr.net ORCID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0986-4676 Heading: RELIGIOUS STYLE: HISTORY AND PRESENT Language: Ukrainian Abstract The article examines the etymology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":12737,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-doi.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12804","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13017,"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12804\/revisions\/13017"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ks.iul-nasu.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}