SOMATIC VOCABULARY CONTAINING SAJ ~ §AJ (‘AN EYE’) COMPONENT IN SELKUP
The article is devoted to the cultural and linguistic analysis of Selkup somatic vocabulary which consists of the words denoting eye parts (a pupil, an eyeball) or face parts connected with an eye (an eyelid, an eyebrow, an eyelash), and denomination of somatic word tear. The vocabulary under consideration includes general, for the given number of lexemes, components: saj ~ Зaj ‘an eye’.
Keywords: Selkup language, somatic vocabulary, an organ of visual perception, cultural realia
Issue: 10, 2012
Pages: 89 — 93
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