Onion in the North Russian linguistic and cultural tradition
The article is devoted to the North Russian (especially Vologda and Arkhangelsk) vocabulary related to the practice of growing onions: these are words that name species and parts of this plant, peculiarities of its growth, methods and units of its storage, dishes that are prepared from it. The abund...
| Published in: | Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filologiya |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | Russian |
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Tomsk State University
2019
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| Online Access: | http://elar.urfu.ru/handle/10995/101590 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85077712952&doi=10.17223%2f19986645%2f61%2f4&partnerID=40&md5=902ec973fe6548cecf38f1c558ac2b18 http://journals.tsu.ru/uploads/import/1866/files/1998-6645_i61_p053.pdf https://doi.org/10.17223/19986645/61/4 |
| Summary: | The article is devoted to the North Russian (especially Vologda and Arkhangelsk) vocabulary related to the practice of growing onions: these are words that name species and parts of this plant, peculiarities of its growth, methods and units of its storage, dishes that are prepared from it. The abundance of “onion” vocabulary in the dialects of the Russian North is not accidental and relates to the extensive ethnographic and folklore materials collected by the Toponymic Expedition of the Ural Federal University mainly in the central and eastern districts of the Vologda region: they are ethnographic information about the time to plant and harvest onions, elements of magical practices that promote good crop of onions, etc.; “onion” folk beliefs; folklore small magic texts accompanying the planting of onions. Together with lexical data, they make up a rich linguistic and cultural tradition associated with the cultivation of onions in the Russian North. This article considers the ideographic originality of the “onion” vocabulary. In particular, the dialects present onion “anatomy” – words naming parts of the vegetable (e.g., Arkhangelsk volos’ya ‘onion roots’, Arkhangelsk osota ‘onion leaves’, Kostroma chiv ‘the lower part of the onion leaf’, etc.). The features of onion “behavior” during its growth is characterized: its ability to expand while growing, to grow into a hard stem, to form several bulbs, etc. (cf. Vologda gryazdit’sya ‘grow by nests (about onions)’, Vologda napyatit’ ‘expand while growing (about onions)’, Arkhangelsk botovik ‘onion that grows as a hard stem’, etc.). Units of storage are designated: usually it is a bunch, in which bulbs are woven together with their leaves, for which they are convenient to hang (cf. Vologda pleten’e, Vologda batman, Vologda medvedko ‘bunch of onions for drying’, etc.). Dishes from onions that are very popular are named (cf. lukovatik ‘onion pie,’ Vologda kislukha, Vologda chipulya, Vologda zvarets ‘onion soup with kvass’, etc.). Some words (namely those that are ... |
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