Abstract

The article examines the semantics and internal form of architectural names motivated by the common Slavic verb *stati / staviti, wich has the Indo-European origin, in the Ukrainian language and its dialects, as well as their parallels in the languages of the Balkan-Slavic continuum. We call the Balkan-Slavic lingual continuum the integrate lingual space of the Balkans, Carpats and Slavia, which includes the languages of the Balkan Peninsula, as well as all Slavic languages, not only those that are part of the Balkan language union. In particular, ukr. stajnja, stan, stąja, zastajka, stajenka, styna, stodola, pol. stania, stań, stajnia, stajna, stąj, stąja, stodoła, chech stání, stájňa, stáj, stájе, chech and slovac stajna, staj, staja, stodola, slovac stajеń, stajňa, stajńja, chech, slovac, slovenian stavba, slovenian stajеń, stajňa, stajńja, stavisko, štala, blg. stuna, blg. and mak. staja, blg., srb., slvc., croat, chech stan, srb., vojev. staj, staja, stajnica, croat., montenegr. staja, sln. staj, stájа, stajna, stajnica, blg., srb. stan, mak. stanovi, rom. stînă, gr. στάνη, hung. esztena, and their phonetical and morphological variants have been studied. Based on the semantic and word-formation analysis of the lexical material, conclusions are drawn that the studied words are formed on the basis of common European nominative models for names of housing and livestock premises, motivated by verbs with the meaning ‛put’. It is determined that the nominative models and semantics of names, which reflects the different purpose of buildings, are due to a certain shade of meaning of the verbmotivator. The considered architectural names are formed according to two productive word-forming models ‛to build’ — ‛building’ and ‛to put’ — ‛reservoir, room’. The names of premises for livestock are formed according to the final nominative model, which is based on the purpose, functions and meaning of the verb ‛to place’ (stable ‛place where cattle are placed or where they stand’), and the names of buildings for people are formed according to causal nominative model, which is based on the meaning of the verb ‛to put, to build’ (building). Separate groups are East, South and West Slavic formations and mutual borrowings between Slavic languages and languages of the Carpathian-Balkan continuum.

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