Системи словотвору самоідентифікаційних назв протоукраїнських спільнот на землях центральної та північної Китайгородщини

Abstract

In the article systems of Indo-European word formation of self-identi fi cation names of communities, which in the IX-III millennium BC mastered the natural liv-ing space in the center and north of the modern Kytaihorod rural territorial commu-nity of Kamianets-Podilskyi district of Khmelnytskyi region have been analyzed. It has been proved that in the structure of archaic oikonyms, which denote specifi c set-tlements of the studied region, relicts of self-names of local prehistoric communities have been preserved. It is substantiated that the inheritance in the Ukrainian language of self-identifi cation names of ancient peoples proves the linguistic and ethnic con-nection of the original inhabitants of the region with the Ukrainian people.Thus, the use in studies of Indo-European word formation systems of self-identifying names of ancient Ukrainian communities of philosophy of language by W. von Humboldt, the teachings of O.O. Necessary methods of theoretical mod-eling and systems analysis allow us to move away from the so-called «folk etymol-ogy» and obtain objective information about the systemic language support of pre-historic economic and social progress in specifi c micro-regions of Proto-Ukraine.