Names of the romanian folk costume (District of Storozhynets, Chernivtsi Region)

Abstract

Field research in the Storozhinet district, which includes the Romanian villages of Budenets, Cheresh, Chudei, Krasnoilsk, Izhivtsi, Nizhny and Verkhni Petrivtsi, as well as in the Hlybot district, in the village of Ropcha, convinced us that everywhere there is a special interest in preserving the Romanian language, names ancient folk clothing and Romanian culture in general by popularizing traditions and the Christian-Orthodox faith, which are the main components of spiritual identity, defining elements of Romanian identity not only in this zone, but also in other adjacent territories. The purpose of the article is to analyze the terminology related to folk clothing. The novelty of scientific research is due to the fact that the vocabulary for the designation of the Romanian folk costume in the valley of the Siret River is being studied for the first time. The relevance of the study is motivated by the need for an in-depth analysis of the terminology of traditional Romanian folk clothing from ethnographic, ethnological and ethnolinguistic points of view, which confirms the dynamics of the development of the Romanian language in Ukraine. Conclusion. So, after analyzing the specific terminology of the indicated ethnographic region, we came to the conclusion that language elements of Latin origin are the most productive. They testify that the investigated layer of vocabulary was formed a long time ago, and therefore reflects the mentality, linguistic and cultural features of the Romanians of Northern Bukovina, is part of their ethnographic and ethnolinguistic heritage.