Set Phrases Research Articles

Exploring Students’ Perceptions of Role-Playing Activities in Boosting English Speaking Confidence

This study explores students’ perceptions of role-playing as a pedagogical approach in language learning. A questionnaire was administered to 112 participants to gauge their views on the effectiveness of role-playing in enhancing language proficiency. The results indicate a generally favorable perception among students, highlighting role-playing’s ability to simulate real-life situations, promote engagement, and foster creativity in language use. Participants reported that role-playing activities effectively facilitated the practice of spontaneous language production and enhanced student engagement. Various types of role-playing activities were evaluated, revealing that scripted role-playing increased confidence, semi-scripted formats supported the use of set phrases, and improvised role-plays improved fluency. Additionally, students recognized benefits such as improved speaking fluency and pronunciation. However, challenges such as performance anxiety and time management issues were also identified. This research highlights the significant potential of role-playing in language education while addressing the associated challenges, suggesting that careful implementation can maximize its benefits.

The Labyrinth of Technical English

ESP is a complex matter to deal with for teachers as well as for students. It involves effort and commitment on both sides, a great deal of free time necessary for training, seriousness and, more than anything else, motivation; technical English is not just a long list of words to be learned by heart or complicated set phrases, it is a mix of everyday English vocabulary and conversations that are commonly met in technical contexts. Acquiring the terms in the field of expertise is vital, but only used in appropriate authentic situations may help learners get the real meaning and may help them to handle them correctly. One key aspect is to master the ability to adapt the knowledge from the class to the related work field opportunities. Useful materials are hard to create since the English teacher has no connection to the technical field, thus, a collaboration with other teachers is a positive aspect that should be taken into consideration. Students may also contribute with relevant information in the class, generating a bond with the teacher and a friendly learning environment where everybody plays a role, brings a contribution and offers support. It may be perceived as a team work coordinated by a teacher in the role of the leader. However, recently, a lot of specialised books for teaching technical English have appeared on the market, facilitating the entire teaching process.

Subtitling the f-word into Arabic in Hollywood films: a corpus-based study

This study investigates the prevailing strategies used by Arab translators when translating the f-word in subtitles. The study also determines whether these strategies are source-language-oriented or target-language-oriented. To address these research questions, a corpus of 90 Hollywood films released between 2000 and 2018 is analysed quantitatively and qualitatively, with a particular focus on their subtitles. Insights from descriptive translation studies (henceforth DTS), particularly Toury (2012), are also incorporated. The findings indicate that the functions of the f-word significantly influence the choice of subtitling strategies. Also, the use of Modern Standard Arabic in Arabic subtitles restricts the subtitlers’ linguistic options. Additionally, the nature of audiovisual translation plays a role in subtitler choices since the meaning of a word can be conveyed through gestures, images, or sounds on screen. In addition, the f-word is often translated into religious expressions, and omission is commonly used for certain functions as, for instance, an emphatic intensifier or idiomatic ‘set phrase’.

FRAGMENTS OF SLAVONIC-IRANIAN MYTHOPOETIC TEXT: SYNTACTIC CONSTRUCTIONS WITH *svęt- : *śṷanta-

The paper aims to reconstruct the common elements of the Slavonic and Iranian mythopoetic text, referring to the idea of the sanctity and sacred. The need to reconstruct the elements of this phenomenon of the communicative culture history makes out topicality of the proposed study. The objects of the investigation are: 1) set phrases, which in Iranian and Slavonic consist of the genetically identical lexemes; 2) Slavonic and Iranian set phrases, in which the only term is genetically common for both languages (*svętъ : *śṷanta-), while the second part here is represented by the synonyms with the different etymons; 3) two-termed (dithematic, bibasic) compound words with *svęt- : *śṷanta-, which are often the result of contraction of primary set phrases. Etymological, morphological and lexical-semantic features of analyzed units as well as reconstructed prototypes constitute the subject of the study. As the result of the proposed research, a set of ancient common to Iranians and Slavs formulaic expressions (and anthroponyms derived from them) are revealed; it is determined, that all the analyzed syntactic constructions were formed in the process of cultural contacts between speakers of both languages; their formal and semantic reconstruction is justified. Conclusions. Comparative-historical analysis of the ancient Slavonic and Iranian cliched phrases with the core component *svętъ : *śṷanta- and related to them dithematic personal names reveals the traces of the common Slavonic-Iranian text, formed within the poetic speech. Etymological composition of such «mycrotexts» along side with reflected therein complex of religious and ethic ideas, which is common to both cultural-linguistic traditions, leaves no doubt that we deal with the heritage of Slavonc-Iranian contacts. Especially indicative are the examples of full genetical identity in composition of formulaic constructions among the Slavs and Iranians. The semantic basis of formulaic expressions, common to both languages, is formed with the complex of discrete meanings, referring to the notions of abundance, life force and its increase. The material demonstrates the significant specific weight of Proto-Slavonic units with the exponent *svęt- alongside with the rudimentary and clearly areally and also chronologically limited data of Iranian languages. Permanent renewability of the tradition to use the syntactic cliches with *svęt- was facilitated by their involvement into the field of the derivation of Slavonic anthroponymic composites and later their demand in the texts of Christian religious topic. The perspectives for further work in the outlined vector are seen in comparison of the collected material with data of Baltic languages.

Analysis of Code Switching on Cinta Laura Kiehl in Iwil Network Youtube Channel Video

The study, "An Analysis of Code Switching on Cinta Laura Kiehl in Iwil Network YouTube Channel Video," focused on two main issues: types and reasons for code switching. Utilizing Poplack's (1980) and Grosjean's (1981) theories, it employed a qualitative approach. Data collection involved downloading the video, watching the podcast, reading the script, and identifying instances of code switching. A total of 144 instances were found, categorized into 21 Tag Switching, 91 Inter-Sentential, and 32 Intra-Sentential occurrences. Reasons for code switching included Fill a Linguistics Need for Lexical Item, Set Phrase, Discourse Maker, or Sentence Filler (72 instances), Continued The Last Language Used (52 instances), and others such as Quoting Someone (1 instance), Specify Address (3 instances), and Conveying Confidentiality, Anger, and Annoyance (4 instances). These findings contribute to understanding the intricacies of code switching in the context of Cinta Laura Kiehl's videos on the Iwil Network YouTube channel.

Language of the Future as an Object of Satire in D. Eggers’s Dystopic Dilogy

Personal worldview can be subjected to linguistic modeling even if the person in question is a fictional character. This research featured the vocabulary invented by the contemporary American writer Dave Eggers for his dystopic dilogy, as well as the role of this fictional language in creating satirical mode. The study involved such methods of cognitive linguistics as component, transformational, and stylistic analyses, analytical description, and semantic fields. The article opens with a review of domestic and foreign publications on the connection between language, social processes, and thinking. The Circle (2013) and The Every (2021) were analyzed for satirical and stylistic devices. The dilogy turned out to be a new type of satire, which combines the postmodern irony and deconstruction with the metamodern openness and optimism. The vocabulary of the future as seen by the author was analyzed for its functions in creating the worldview. Its key features include: neologisms and occasionalisms coined in line with actual word-formation models; contrasting high and low-style vocabulary; euphemisms and modified set phrases. D. Eggers also satirized some real linguistic trends, which, in his opinion, deform the language and affect people’s mind and behavior.

«Кедей» ұғымына қатысты тілдік бірліктердің этномәдени ерекшелігі (қазақ, қырғыз және түрік тілдерінің материалдары негізінде)

This article is devoted to the consideration of the ethno-cultural specificity of linguistic units in relation to the concept of "poor", which is part of the human macrosystem. Language provides insight into the identity, culture, spiritual and material values, way of life, knowledge and understanding of the people. Therefore, the main goal of the research article is to identify the cognitive nature of the concept of “poor”, to consider the specifics, the semantic meaning of this word in the Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Turkish languages, and to show their differences and similarities. The article presents knowledge and thoughts, vocabulary, proverbs, phraseology and catchphrases related to the concept of the “poor”. The analysis of the semantics, linguocognitive meaning of the words baikus, zhalshi, zharly, zharly-zhakybay, beggar included in the Kazakh microconcept of the poor, and phraseological units formed by these words was carried out. The etymology of the Turkish word "yoksul" (poor), set phrases associated with this name, has been ethnolinguistically differentiated. Differences in similar phraseological units found in three languages were compared and demonstrated. Having learned the inner meaning of the language as a whole, one can recognize a whole ethnic group, people. In modern linguistics, the study of the relationship between language and culture is considered as an urgent problem. The study of ethnocultural units related to the concept of the poor, the definition of the history of their origin, the consideration of the scope of their application at the present time, as well as the definition of their place in the historical vocabulary, culture, customs and traditions of our people emphasize the relevance of the article.

Considering the Factor of Ignorance in Linguo-Criminal Texts

The article considers the problem of ignorance and resulting misunderstanding in texts that are the objects of forensic linguistic expertise. The authors of linguo-criminal texts may use set phrases that have become memes, but it can be difficult to determine whether they are real citations. Misunderstanding of words and phraseological units is often explained by the fact that the speakers are detached from Soviet reality, including Soviet cultural realia. Soviet people understood them, either from their own experience or from works of literature and art (performances or films). The author may be aware of a quote, but not know its origin and real meaning. In such cases, careful contextual analysis of the utterance is necessary. In addition, the expert must take into account linguistic factors: firstly, a certain quotation is reproduced in a standardized or free form, and secondly, this phrase is rigidly or freely specified according to the rules of syntax. The semantics of some words can be understood only after reference to dictionaries, but there can be no certainty that the author of the text meant this. Many words are polysemantic, and their true meaning is not always shown in the context.

EXTRALINGUISTIC INFLUENCE ON THE NOMINATION PROCESS

Statement of the problem. The author proceeds from the idea that the study of the mechanisms of lexical nomination should be carried out taking into account the influence of extralinguistic factors on the linguistic means correlated with them. This article is devoted to the study of the nomination in Australian slang determined by extralinguistic factors. The author notes that there is no direct correspondence between the events taking place in the social life of people and the emergence of new linguistic phenomena. Neoplasms in the language are stipulated by the language structure. The aim of the work is to show how the events taking place in the country and the world are reflected in the nominative process of Australian slang. Results. The subject of the study was 1174 vocabulary units of Australian slang, which were analyzed in a diachronic way from the point of view of extralinguistic impact on the ways of creating new words. This study revealed the dependence of the nominative activity in Australian slang on a complex of external influences. So, at the initial stage of the development of Australian slang there could be traced two mechanisms of nomination, these are borrowing from aboriginal dialects and the creation of new lexico-semantic variants of borrowed words. Later, under the influence of significant events that took place in the country (the expulsion of convicts from Great Britain to Australia, increased sea traffic between the green continent and the outside world, gold digging, World wars I and II, strengthening contacts with other English-speaking states, the development of sports), the arsenal of nominative mechanisms in Australian slang gradually expanded. This was also facilitated by the deepening of relationships between people in Australian society. As a result, today, the inventory of lexico-nominative mechanisms in Australian slang is quite extensive including: the creation of new lexical-semantic variants of words, the creation of set phrases, borrowing, compounding, suffixation, truncation of the stems of words, supplemented by suffixation, contraction and pragmatonymy. Conclusion. This study revealed the dependence of nominative activity in the field of Australian slang on a complex of historically formed and currently emerging external influences. The article shows lexico-nominative mechanisms operating in different historical epochs under the influence of extralinguistic factors.

PECULIARITIES OF ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN ZOOPHRASES: СOMPARATIVE ASPECT

The article deals with the peculiarities English and Ukrainian zoophrasemic specification. It is well known, that any fixed phrase has its own special meaning, which is often impossible to deduce from the meanings of separate words. The comparative – confrontation studies of zoophrases and their world models makes it also possible to solve a number of complicated problems in the field of translation. The topicality of the study of theoretical is specified by insufficient study of theoretical and methodological problems of semantics in comparative – confrontation phraseology as well as the lock of information, coming to light from the results of a more profound analysis of English-Ukrainian correspondences and divergencies. The empirical material under study. For obtaining as precise research data as possible 100 most frequently used phrases enclosing the same number of living creature names with their zoophrasemic specificity have been extracted from different sources in English and Ukrainian. The aim of writing the article is from the view-point of modern achievements in learning comparative phraseology and the arosen new paradigms of cognitive science to characterize that aspect of different set phrases that are based on both coincidences and divergences in the perception of the world around by English and Ukrainian native speakers. The following methods of linguistic research have been applied: phraseological identification, the description and analysis dictionary definitions with selective references to lexicographic and literary sources, classifying them according to different categories. The results of the study is an attempt to demonstrate phrasemic potency in the domain of naming living creatures in English and Ukrainian. Closely and distantly related other languages and their variants may be the subject – matter of further zoophrasemic studies.

Семантика акциональности в аспектах этнополитического пространства (на примере устойчивых оборотов русского и английского языков)

This paper analyses the semantics of set phrases in terms of the ethnopolitical space (geopolitonyms). Phraseological units are studied here from the point of view of constructive (calling for peace) and destructive (resisting violence) actionality. The constructive actionality group represents the metaphorization of prohibition, either strict or advisory, calling for peace through nonviolent means. The set phrases of this group emphasize unity, strength and mutual support as well as a call for conflict suspension. The group of destructive actionality demonstrates aspects of confrontation aimed to prevent an adversary’s aggression. The set phrases of this group express confrontation, opposition and readiness for self-defence. Having analysed the set phrases, the authors identified the component modification of the specific reflection of reality during ethnopolitical processes. This modification reflects the national factor and the worldview of a people. In the course of ethnopolitical activity, the identified types of metaphorical structures are manifested in slogans calling for avoidance of conflict situations. Phraseological constructive actionality can be found in the settlement of disputes, while destructive actionality, in readiness for stabilization and resistance (through direct clashes) in the current destabilized situation. The main function of such set phrases is avoiding destructive actions, at the same time being able to recode information and carry hidden meanings to achieve certain goals while distracting the subject. By demonstrating actionality of constructive and destructive actions, phraseological phrases are able to exert impact of varying degrees.

Concept of the Moon in the Yakut Language World View

The article defines the concept of the moon in the traditional Yakut world view at the levels of language, myth and ritual. It is common knowledge that the Yakuts are the northernmost Turks who have largely preserved the mental representations of the Southern Siberia Turks’ ethnocultural heritage. National world view features in the nominations of the concept moon related to space and time cultural paradigm, representing the mythopoetic picture of the world, have been established. The archaic features of this concept, set phrases, and oral folk art have been considered. The relevance of this research lies in the conceptualization of the verbal culture of the Sakha people. The purpose of the article is to identify linguistic and cultural features of the concept moon in the Yakut language world view. The article uses a cognitive approach, contextual and syntagmatic analysis of word connection as well as the method of conceptual analysis. The cosmological representation of the Universe among the Yakuts is given through the archaic metaphor of a leather vessel with numerical and spatial symbols. The moon is projected in conjunction with the sun as a trace of an early form of deity worship. It has an ambivalent function that affects the fate that generates birth/death. In connection with this understanding, various verbal and non-verbal ritual actions have arisen. The space and time paradigm in the oral tradition has given rise to various names for the calculus of time. In analyzing the nominative field of the concept moon, its universal and national components have been revealed. Among the lexical units that form the concept moon in the Sakha language, one can distinguish riddles that emphasize the roundness of its shape, symbolizing the cyclicity of life – the idea of eternal birth. It has such basic signs as large/pale/white/moving, the somatic code of which is manifested in the symbolic use of the eye. When comparing fairy tales, similar and distinctive motifs associated with the image of the girl on the moon have been revealed.

LINGUA-CULTURAL CONNOTATIONS OF THE ЛЯХ (LYAKH, POLE) ETHNONYM (AS EXEMPLIFIED IN UKRAINIAN PHRASEMES AND PAROEMIAS)

The article focuses on the study of lingua-cultural connotations of the лях (lyakh) ethnonym, which were isolated based on the inner form of Ukrainian set phrases using componential analysis. The noun лях (Pole) was documented in the monuments of the Ukrainian language dating back to the mid-14thcentury. In the language of the early Middle Ukrainian period, it formed a number of derivatives and was actively used as a synonym for полянинъ (Polianyn) (also documented in the late 14th century) until the second half of the 19thcentury. Phrasemes and paroemias with the лях component and other names containing the same semantic component (such as Pole, Polish, Mazurian, etc.) were analysed. The isolated connotative semes were classified into three blocks: 1) semes related to appearance and culinary preferences; 2) semes related to linguistic and worldview peculiarities; 3) semes related to behavioural characteristics. It was established that the most significant behavioural peculiarity in the formation of the lingua-cultural stereotype of the Pole for Ukrainians was expansiveness and proneness to conflict. It is this feature that is reflected in the micro texts of a third of all the paroemias studied. The analysis of the typical structure of the set phrases shows that a number of them are built on the opposition to or comparison with other peoples, primarily neighbours, in particular Ukrainians (appearing as русин (Rusyn) and мужик (muzhik) in the texts of the paroemias) and Russians (called москва (the Moscovian)), as well as Jews, whose compact settlements appeared in Ukraine and Poland in the medieval period. It is noteworthy that from an axiological point of view, only about half of the units contain an ironic or negative assessment; the rest are neutral or positive. Key words: ethnonym, semantics, phraseme, paroemia, inner form, connotation, axiological component of meaning, linguistic world view.

A FEATURE‐BASED ACCOUNT OF GENERICITY AND KIND REFERENCE

AbstractGenericity encompasses two distinct phenomena. The first one is reference to a kind, whereby a predicate describes a property directly of a kind as in Dinosaurs are extinct. The second one is a characterizing or a generic sentence that expresses generalizations as in Cats meow. A feature of generic sentences is that they tolerate exceptions. We accept sentences such as Mosquitos carry the West Nile virus to be true although the predicated property characterizes less than 1 percent of the generic noun phrase.In this article, I propose a feature‐based account of genericity and kind reference linked to a formal semantics that articulates the features responsible for genericity and kind reference and where they are encoded. I argue that genericity and kind reference is due to the [−domain restriction] feature encoded on the (D)eterminer, the [+set] feature on the head of the Set Phrase, and the [+/−exception tolerance] feature encoded on a predicate. This feature‐based account explains why a sentence like Cats meow is tolerant of exceptions while Dinosaurs are extinct is not. My account is in line with the Borer‐Chomsky Conjecture (Baker 2008), according to which crosslinguistic parametric variation is due to differences in the features of functional heads.

White colour symbolism in the poem "A Cemetery near Paris" by R. Rozhdestvensky: a linguoculturological aspect

Robert Rozhdestvensky lived in the era of scientific atheist propaganda. Nevertheless, his poem "A Cemetery near Paris" is an artistic experience of understanding a civil war as the evangelical sin of fratricide. The article aims to analyse the poetic text from a linguoculturological perspective. The study used historical-genetic, descriptive methods as well as the method of observation of the stylistic functions of linguistic units in conjunction with narrative, semantic, componential, and linguo-stylistic analysis. We examined the words and set phrases that act as the main object of this study. Using them, the poet conveys the semantic shades of white and creates the contextual background necessary for their contrastive perception. The adjective white is the dominant lexical means representing the white colour semantics in the poem by R. Rozhdestvensky. Its different grammatical forms repeatedly occur in the text. The expressive effect in the perception of the work is achieved primarily through a natural combination of two main usual lexico-semantic variants (LSV) of the keyword with the contextual semantic connotations ‘colour of the shroud’, ‘colour of the robes of angels, saints’. In addition, such an effect is also created by actualising the themes of death and holiness which are conceptually significant for the Russian mental linguistic consciousness. These interrelated concepts are associated with the colour white. The linguoculturological significance of the dominating lexical unit white and its shades of meaning in the text is enhanced with the help of the same root adverb dobela (English until it is spotlessly clean). Other means include associatively related designations birch, clouds, candles as well as words and expressions thematically interacting with the lexeme white. We conclude that the semantics of the colour white in the poem "A Cemetery near Paris" performs text-forming and semantic functions since it creates a general elegiac tone of the work and considerably helps to objectively evaluate the message of the poet and how it is artistically conveyed in the text.

Phraseological Picture of the World and Communication: Take “Carpe Diem” as an Example

Phraseological units are an integral part of the national linguistic culture. In the collective consciousness of native speakers, set phrases generate a phraseological picture of the world common to any language community. Individuals have their phraseological picture of the world integrated into the general one. The phraseological parameters of discourse and communication represent valuable material for innovative research in the field of communication aesthetics. Phraseological grammar and aesthetics correlate with the creative aspect of stable word combinations of national culture and worldview. The article considers some aspects of French phraseological communication and a picture of the world with due regard to ethnocultural and diachronic factors. A hypothesis is put forward that a specific phraseological unit (“carpe diem”) has a high degree of linguocultural activity in the modern French discourse and, accordingly, in the linguistic picture of the world. There are prospects for further cognitive-communicative research of the phraseological discourse.

Set Phrases With the Lexeme ‟Thursday”. Considerations Regarding the Linguistic and Cultural Image of the Days of the Week in the Polish and Romanian Folk Calendar

"Set Phrases with the Lexeme ”Thursday”. Considerations Regarding the Linguistic and Cultural Image of the Days of the Week in the Polish and Romanian Folk Calendar. Ever since the 1970s and 1980s, the relationship between language and culture has been a topic of broad interest for linguists, which undoubtedly contributed to bringing linguistics closer to humanities. The prefix ethno- contained in the term ethnolinguistics used over the course of this article should be interpreted as an abbreviation for ethnology, a term synonymous with the American anthropology. Describing so-called language stereotypes is one of the main topics of interests for what we generally call “Polish cognitivism”, conducted for years by Polish linguists. The term stereotype itself is used in its original Lippmann's meaning as a schematic and one-sided “picture or image in a person’s mind” of a phenomenon, human being, or thing and at the same time an opinion assimilated from the environment even before discovering the object itself. In Polish language and culture, days of the week were not personified. Therefore, to a philologist-linguist who is comparing the two languages, the data derived from folklore will be a “weaker” starting point than “hard” linguistic confirmations (fixed structures). My goal is to offer a Polish and Romanian comparative analysis which is supported by ethnological or historical data. Keywords: ethnolinguistics, Polish and Romanian comparative study, folk calendar, Thursday "

Me río de la mafia. Los Cubrepileta y la sátira mafiosa en la Argentina

In this essay, the mafia appears as a cultural object when analyzed from a humorous program broadcast in the 1990s in Argentina. It is Los Cubrepileta, a sketch that was part of Cha Cha Cha starring Alfredo Casero, Fabio Alberti, Diego Capusotto, Vivian El Jaber, Jorge Takashima, Alejandra Flechner, among others. Cha Cha Cha was a crazy, surreal and absurd program broadcast during 1993 and from 1995 to 1997 on América TV. Although the space was never massive, it is interesting to observe and analyze the way in which the sketch dedicated to an Italian family (Los Cubrepileta) parody the mafia with gags, jokes and set phrases inspired by movies and novels as well as the stereotype from the Italian mobster. To this is added another interesting fact, the reproduction of the sketches on YouTube, the visualizations and the comments on them.

The mystery of creativity in man and in nature: a linguostylistic analysis of M. M. Prishvin’s "failed novel" "Crane Homeland" (to the 150th anniversary of the birth)

Based on a linguo-stylistic analysis of the story "Crane Homeland", the article attempts to reveal M. M. Prishvin’s concept of creative mastery origins. The research aims to examine those linguistic means of the writer’s "failed novel" which enabled M. M. Prishvin to unlock the "secrets" of creativity in man and in nature. To achieve this goal, I used lexical and word-formation analysis, comparative, and integrative methods. Additionally, contextual semantic analysis made it possible to identify the transformations of the meaning of individual linguistic units and reveal the philosophical component of this work of fiction in its entirety. The paper explores various linguo-stylistic devices which allowed the writer to reveal the essence of creativity. These include devices of comparison and contrast, repetition, si mile, semantic widening, playing with set phrases, polynomination, and others. The characterisation of the Claudophora algae nomination series permits establishing the intertextual connections of the work as well as determining the symbolic meaning of the text components. The paper concludes that M. M. Prishvin saw two sides of the creative process, namely the technical and the divine. One can learn the former and become a belletrist. The latter defies explanation and is a revelation from Heaven (a book... falls from the heavens).

The magic bead of the Ossetians: Philological and linguistic analysis

The article provides philological and linguistic analysis of two set phrases which denote a magic bead in Ossetian. They are known in epic texts and are reflected also in folklore narratives. In the Iron dialect the magic bead is called cykurajy færdyg, while in Digor its name is γolaqi færdug / zolaq færdug. The research considers its other nominations occurring sporadically in the language, which allows a discussion of semantic aspects of the attributes used in these collocations. So far they have remained obscure, and various views on their exact meaning have been expressed. This analysis leads to certain etymological conclusions, and the archaic configuration of one of the lexemes discussed here is treated in the context of some difficult and not properly resolved features of historical Ossetic morphology and syntax. The study of the other lexeme points, inter alia, to contacts with Turkic languages. The research considers an important chronological dimension that acknowledges the sporadic preservation of archaisms in Iron rather than Digor, and tentatively dates the two names for magic beads as going back, correspondingly, to the Old or Middle Iranian period and the times of Alano-Turkic contacts.