Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Nanai Shamanic Vocabulary with the Component -so/-su

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2022 15 (10)
Authors
Bulgakova, Tatiana D.; Zaksor, Lyubov Z.
Contact information
Bulgakova, Tatiana D.: Institute of the Peoples of the North A. I. Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; Zaksor, Lyubov Z.: Institute of the Peoples of the North A. I. Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia St. Petersburg, Russian Federation;
Keywords
Nanai language; shamanic vocabulary; word formation
Abstract

The article considers the component -so/-su, which, being added as a suffix to the root basis of the generating word from the group of common and ordinary vocabulary, contributes to the semantic shift by translating the derived word into the group of religious vocabulary. The identification of words with the root basis of su ‘amulet, talisman’, sue ‘the roots of the mythical shamanic tree’, or sona ‘group of shamanic spirits’ suggests that such a semantic shift indicates the origin of the component -so/-su form those roots. The authors consider that the method of word formation by word composition and subsequent reduction of the second root with partial preservation of the semantics of this second root is manifested not only in the words considered in the article, but indicates the presence of a certain pattern in the Nanai language that has not yet been investigated

Pages
1445–1454
DOI
10.17516/1997-1370-0904
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/145417

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