UDC

81’373-112

Authors

Larisa V. Nenasheva
Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov; nab. Severnoy Dviny 17, Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russian Federation; e-mail: jazyk@atknet.ru

Abstract

Clothing is one of the basic elements of a nation’s material culture. Clothes demonstrate national identity and are closely linked with national history. Undoubtedly, clothing changes over the centuries, but at the same time preserves the age-old peculiarities of style, decorations and names. This paper deals with the names of women’s clothing found in the Arkhangelsk Region dialects. These are the names of sarafans, light dresses, blouses and shirts. The author analysed both clothing terms used in most areas of the Arkhangelsk Region, and special local names for women’s clothes. This paper studies original dialect materials collected during dialectological expeditions over the past 50 years (since the early 1960s) and stored in the catalogue of the Russian Language and Speech Culture Department, Northern (Arctic) Federal University (Arkhangelsk, Russia). Each word under study is provided with a definition from the context and illustrations. Furthermore, the paper traces the origin of some words related to light women’s clothing; their etymology is studied using historical and etymological dictionaries. In conclusion, the analysed material shows that almost all names of light women’s clothing are of Common Slavic origin. According to historical and etymological dictionaries, these words had been actively used by Russians over many centuries and are still spoken by people living in the northern parts of the Arkhangelsk Region.

Keywords

Arkhangelsk Region, Russian North, light women’s clothing, names for women’s clothing, etymology

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