THE LEXICOGRAPHIC POTENTIAL OF THE UKRAINIAN-MOLDOVAN CHARTERS FOR THE FORMATION OF THE CORPS OF THE HISTORICAL DICTIONARY
Journal section: Theory and Methodology
of Historical Lexicography
Language: Ukrainian
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37919/3083-6212.2024.1.53-61
Bohdana BABENCHUK
Candidate of Sciences in Philology, Junior Researcher in the Department of History of the Ukrainian Language and Onomastics, Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8472-3588
e-mail: danatea0716@gmail.com
The article analyzes the names of the environment attested in legal monuments from the territory of the Principality of Moldavia, in relation to the time of their fixation, compared the obtained information with the corresponding information in the “Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14–15th centuries” (DOUL). Such a comparison is due to the fact that a significant part of the lexical material of the Ukrainian-Moldovan alphabets entered the Dictionary’s register in the 70s of the 20th century. However, during the following decades, the dating of some legal monuments, which served as the source of this register, was clarified, and some of them after careful study were qualified as fake documents, in addition, the scientific circulation was replenished with the vocabulary of found business documents for the first time. This made it necessary to clarify the vocabulary and information about it provided in the DOUL.
During the work on the Ukrainian-Moldavian charters and their more thorough processing, several categories of names of the environment of the 14–15th centuries were singled out. In particular: lexemes, the dating of which differs slightly from the dating in the DOUL, which is due to the clarification of the time of the creation of the document; lexemes, the dating of which is significantly different from the dating in the DOUL; lexemes available in the DOUL from territorially other documents, but not attested in the register of Ukrainian-Moldovan documents; lexemes, the dating of which is later than indicated in the DOUL (in particular, due to the inclusion of fake documents from later times in the Dictionary); lexemes not attested in DOUL.
Analysis of the names of the environment attested in Ukrainian-Moldavian charters of the 14th–15th centuries allows us to assert that they, having different origins and spheres of use, organically functioned in the old Ukrainian language, which was used in the offices of the Moldavian principality as the state language.
Keywords: historical lexicography, “Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian language of the 14th–15th centuries”, Ukrainian-Moldavian charters, names of the environment, the first fixation.
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