Abstract

The text of the epic is replete with words whose meaning and origin from the point of view of modern realities is not entirely clear. Currently, with the advent of linguistic corps, it is possible to study such units as part of collocations, isolating them from a vast array of texts in a statistical way. The aim of this work is to identify and study the collocation series of the word күдр, found on the basis of the epic «Dzhangar» material. Methods. The contextual method, the method of analyzing vocabulary definitions, valency analysis, and the statistical method are used. Results. The analysis allows us to establish and restore the meaning of two homonyms: the noun күдр ‘musk deer’ and the adjective күдр ‘strong, healthy, powerful’. Conclusions. As a result of processing the entire array of textual data of “the Dzhangar” epic, it is revealed that the word occurs three times in the meaning of “musk deer” only in the Bagatsokhurovsky cycle of the epic. The adjective күдр, unlike the noun, is used much more often in different repertoires – Maloderbetovsky (44 times), Bagatsokhurovsky (11 times), Eelyan Ovla’s (20 times), Mukeben Basangov’s (18 times). The absolute frequency of use is recorded in the Maloderbetovsky cycle. The analysis of the number of collocations depending on the recording time, localization, and dialectal features of the rhapsods shows that the largest number is represented in the Maloderbetovsky cycle, one collocation with the main word хавсн also occurs in the cycle of songs by Eelyan Ovla. The collocation күдр зандн иш is found in the Bagatsokhurovsky cycle and in the repertoire of Mukeben Basangov. As for the semantics of the word күдр, depending on the context, it can have the following meanings: ‘tough, strong, powerful, tight, flexible, mighty, cast, impassable’.

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