Semantic shifts in the Samoyedic basic vocabulary and their parallels. 4. Earth

• Main Author: Fedotova, Idaliya
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Center for Open Science 2023
• Subjects: samoyed*; Tungusic languages
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/cr6xf

This paper is the fourth and final part of the series which investigates the cases of semantic shifts and protolanguage polysemy in the basic vocabulary of the Samoyedic languages. This research focuses on the shifts that have analogies in Turkic and Tungusic languages, identified with the help of semantic reconstruction. Special maps were created on the LingvoDoc linguistic platform to demonstrate areas of similar polysemy and semantic shifts, possibly contact-induced. Using materials from archival and expeditionary dictionaries, this paper proposes a detailed account of the available lexicon of the Samoyed languages within the scope of core lexicon. Our overall results show 15 semantic shifts in the form of polysemy, semantic evolution and cognates. The present paper investigates semantic shifts ‘earth, soil’ > ‘place’, ‘earth, soil’ > ‘sand, ‘earth, soil’ > ‘clay’, ‘earth, soil’ > ‘ashes’ and ‘sand’ > ‘pebbles’ in Samoyed, Turkic and Tungusic languages.