Names of Jewelry in the Turkic and Finno-Ugric Languages of the Ural-Volga Region

Abstract

The article considers the names of jewelry in the Turkic and Finno-Ugric languages of the Ural-Volga region, reveals common and specific features in their nomination. The research was conducted taking into account the data of linguistic, ethnographic, archaeological works. The areas of distribution of names were constructed and an attempt was made to date the appearance of lexemes. The search for etymologies and mapping were carried out on the linguistic platform Lingvodok. The following features of the names of jewelry in the Turkic and Finno-Ugric languages of the Ural-Volga region were revealed: 1) lexemes denoting a ring, earrings and beads in the Turkic languages are more ancient and go back to the proto-forms; in the Finno-Ugric languages, they are either borrowings or derivatives of other words. This conclusion confirms the research of archaeologists who attribute the jewelry of the Turks to the Hunno-Sarmatian era; 2) the names confirm ethnographic data, for example, the Arabic loanword for coral beads is found in the languages in which this type of beads is found; 3) the names of the headbands correspond to the types and functions of the headbands. Thus, on the basis of linguistic data, the data of archaeological and ethnographic studies were confirmed, in a sense sometimes even dating the origin of the names.