WHAT DID UKRAINIANS BUY IN THE 17TH CENTURY? (based on the material of purchase and sale of the Boryspil city government)

Abstract

The article deals with the names of objects of purchase and sale which are analyzed in the material of business documents of the 17th century. The purpose of the article was to clarify the dynamics of the semantic structure of these lexemes.The analyzed lexemes according to the meaning are grouped into two subgroups: 1) lexemes for representing the general notion of ʻhomestead with land’ (podvarok, hutor, dvor, dom, izba, klunia, hata); 2) lexemes for representing the concept of ʻcrofting’ (grunt, nyva, ogorod, pliatz). The lexeme otchyzna is separately. The lexical-semantic group of names of objects of purchase and sale shows the system character: the relations of synonymy, contextual antonymy, polysemy are available among its units.To conclude, this studied segment of vocabulary is included to the core and to the periphery of the thematic group of trade vocabulary of the Ukrainian language of the 17th century. The main structural feature of the studied names is that they are all one-word nominations.The fate of the analyzed lexemes is not the same: phonetically transformed, nouns dvir, gorod, grunt, filvarok, hutir are fixed as a normative in the lexical system of Ukrainian; the word klunia came to the periphery of the thematic group of names of the premises; lexemes dom, izba are entrenched in the lexical system of the Russian language; nomens nyva, hata are remained without changes; the word pliatz has narrowed semantic structure (it is out of the use of the meaning ʻplot of land’).The studied lexemes testify the peculiarities of dialect division of the Ukrainian language territory – active contacts of the Northern and South-Eastern dialects.