Abstract
The article is based on the author’s field materials on funeral rituals, collected during ethnolinguistic research on the territory of the historical region of Oltenia (the southwestern part of modern Romania) – in the districts of Vâlcea, Gorj and Mehedinţi, and in the Serbian part of the region in Romanian scientific literature called the Timoc valley (Valea Timocului) – in the Zaječar and Bor districts of Serbia, mainly in those settlements of eastern Serbia where speakers of Oltenian subdialects live. In addition, when writing the article, the works of Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian ad other researchers concerning funeral rituals and related folklore texts from Oltenia, the Timok valley and other regions with Romanian-speaking population were used. Particular attention is paid to the terms used in different regions and settlements to designate a tree as part of the funeral props, as well as folklore texts related to funeral rituals, in which trees are mentioned.
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