Kundyub- basis in Russian dialects: semantics and versions of etymology

INTRODUCTION. In the Don dialects of Volgograd Oblast, the lexeme kundyubenkiy with the meaning 'ugly (about a person)' is recorded. The internal form of the word is obscured for a modern native speaker, which determines the purpose of this study: to trace the formation and development of the semantics of the base kundyub- (for convenience we denoted by the base kundyuball its phonetic variants: kundyub-, kundub-, kundum-, kundum-) in Russian dialects and in the literary language, to reveal the etymology of words of this base.

MATERIALS AND METHODS. The analysis of lexicographic sources of different directions (dialect dictionaries, dictionaries of modern Turkic and Mongolian languages, etymological dictionaries) allowed us to identify dialectal and all-Russian lexemes with the kundyub- base, which differ significantly in semantics and presumably go back to one or two related ancient bases.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. The variation of the semantics of lexemes with the kundyub- base in Russian (mainly in the southern dialects) is considered, the links of the analyzed units in Turkic and Mongolian modern languages are established, the question of the composition of lexemes within the ancient base is raised, taking into account the structure and semantics of the units.

CONCLUSION. The versions of the etymology of the words of the kundyub- base with reference to lexicographic sources are given, variants of the formation and development of the semantics of the basis in diachrony are proposed, problematic and controversial points of the issue under consideration are outlined and further prospects of the study are outlined.

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