Balalaieva, O.
(2024).
Etymological analysis of scientific names of cultivated trees and shrubs .
International Journal of Philology,
15(1),
37-45.
https://doi.org/10.31548/philolog15(1).2024.04
Dendronyms are one of the most ancient layers of vocabulary, their research in comparative and cognitive-onomasiological aspects is one of the topical areas of modern linguistics. Despite the strong tradition of studying dendronyms, the scientific names of cultivated trees and shrubs remain outside the researchers’ attention. The aim of the article is to determine the etymology of the scientific names of cultivated trees and shrubs, to reconstruct the motivators of the dendronyms nomination. Etymological analysis of dedronyms and the comparative method were used in the research, 16 binomial names served as material. The conducted analysis proved that the process of nomination of trees and shrubs in Latin and Ukrainian is mostly based on the mechanisms of propositional and dictum motivation, which fixes true knowledge about the object of nomination in the structure of the name. Predicate-argument type of propositional-dictum motivation prevails. In both Latin and Ukrainian languages, the reconstruction of the motivators of many names of trees and shrubs remains hypothetical, even within the etymological investigations of the same word, researchers actualize different name motivators, seeing connections with various characteristics of plant: appearance, color, smell, taste, origin or place of growth, time of flowering or ripening, properties, usage in human practice and other factors. Since the process of domestication of trees and shrubs has a long history, many dendronyms names in both Latin and Ukrainian languages have reconstructed Proto-Indo-European stems. The results of the research can be used in the educational process in the training of specialists in the field of horticulture and forestry
dendronym; generic name; specific epithet; etymology; motivation; motivator
[1] Balalaieva, O. (2020). High-frequency Greek and Latin roots denoting plant parts. Euromentor, 11(2), 137-145.
[2] Blažek, V. (2018). Іndo-European dendronyms in the perspective of external comparison. Journal of Indo-European Studies, 46(1/2).
[3] Caceres-Lorenzo, M.T., & Salas- Pascual, M. (2022). What do phytonyms name? The definition of plant names in academic dictionaries. Revue Romane, 57(2), 343-366. doi: 10.1075/rro.17012.cac.
[4] Dębowiak, P., & Waniakowa, J. (2019). Semantic motivation of plant names as a part of their etymology. In The landscape of lexicography (pp. 173-200). Lisbon: Centre for Linguistics of the University of Lisbon & Centre for Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Aveiro.
[5] Fenwick, R.S. (2016). Descendants and ancestry of a Proto-Indo-European phytonym *meh₂l-. The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 44, 441-456.
[6] Genaust, H. (2012). Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. Hamburg: Nikol.
[7] Hrytsenko, S.P., & Balalayeva, O.Y. (2008). Latin language for the students-agrobiologists. Kyiv: Centre of educational literature.
[8] Kalko, V.V. (2003). Cognitive and onomasiological analysis of names of medicinal plants in the Ukrainian language. Odesa: Odesa National University Named after II Mechnikov.
[9] Kharchenko, S.V (2019). Integrated dictionary of dendronyms as a means of unifying the names of green spaces in parks and squares. International Philological Journal, 10(1), 83-93.
[10] Melnychuk, O.S., & Boldyrev, R.V. (1982). Etymological dictionary of the Ukrainian language. Kyiv: Scientific Thought.
[11] Nechitailo, V.A, Badanina, V.A, Gritsenko, V.V. (2005). Cultivated plants of Ukraine. Kyiv: Phytosociological Centre.
[12] Sabadosh, I.V. (2014). History of Ukrainian botanical vocabulary (XIX - early XX centuries). Uzhhorod: Uzhhorod National University.
[13] Shestakova, S. (2010). Motivation of modern Ukrainian phytonyms. Ukrainian Language, 2, 44-49.
[14] Shynkaruk, V.D., Balalaeva, O.Y., & Vakulyk, I. (2017). Lingua Latina agrobiologica. Kyiv: Millennium.
[15] Shynkaruk, V.D., Vakulyk, I.I., Kushnir, A.I., Kharchenko, S.V., & Lychuk, M.I. (2019). Development of the latest principles for creating a register of valuable trees and shrubs of parks and squares in Kyiv based on terminological standards. Kyiv: Millennium.
[16] Urniaż, А.J. (2021). Shapes in Botanical Names: A Polyconfrontative Approach. Academic Journal of Modern Philology, 12, 219-229.
[17] Usyk, L. (2017). Cognitive and onomasiological reconstruction of the evaluative component in the semantics of phytonyms (based on the names of medicinal plants in German, English, Russian and Ukrainian). (PhD thesis, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, Ukraine).
[18] Vaan de, M. (2016). Etymological dictionary of Latin and the other Italic languages. Boston: Leiden.
[19] Waniakowa, J. (2021). Bicultural plant names as a reflection of the attitude of dialect users towards nature (Historical and comparative approach). Guidebook to Languages, 3, 45-59.