ETYMOLOGY AS ONE OF THE WAYS TO STREAMLINE TERMINOLOGY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF SOME UDMURT FISH NAMES)

Abstract

One of the unresolved issues of Udmurt lexicology is terminology. This is especially true for the names of herbaceous plants, small birds and animals, as well as the names of fish. There is often confusion about the meanings of these groups of words: the same word is used to name several species, and at the same time, there are many names for one species, which are usually dialect doublets. Insufficient research of dialect vocabulary and lack of systematization of terminology lead to difficulties in compiling dictionaries of literary language. In particular, it concerns choosing the Udmurt lexical unit as an equivalent of the Russian term, due to the phonetic and semantic variation of the word, as well as the lack of information about its territorial distribution. One of the possible ways to solve this problem could be the study of the origin of the word. This article attempts to find variants of terms acceptable for the literary Udmurt language on the example of the etymologization of some names of fish (catfish, chub, ide, asp).