Наименования посуды и кухонной утвари в хакасском языке

Abstract

The research objectives are as follows: to describe nominations of dishes and cookware in the Khakass language, to show how they represent specificity of the traditional Khakass culture. A linguistic analysis allows better understanding of the following issues: ways of cooking traditional dishes, traditional food of the Khakass people and the basic cooking techniques. The paper provides a comparative analysis of the Khakass, Turkic and Mongolian lexemes. The identified interlingual parallels indicate existence of historical contacts between the languages under study. Scientific originality of the research lies in the fact that for the first time in the Khakass linguistics, the author examines the lexical units nominating dishes and cookware, theoretically justifies principles of their classification. As a result, it was determined that the most numerous group is represented by names of dishes and cookware; the differentiation feature of the analysed vocabulary is functional household activities associated with the process of nutrition in the traditional culture of the ethnic group.