Data for Etymology of Lexis in Russian Dialects of the Kama Region: Batkas, Bachka, Byordysh

Gaidamashko R.V. Data for Etymology of Lexis in Russian Dialects of the Kama Region: Batkas, Bachka, Byordysh NRD, Volume 17. 2018 , 30–45
Abstract

The present article continues the publication of materials on etymology of dialect lexis in the Russian dialects of the Kama region, see cf. “Northern Russian dialects”, issues 14, 15. (2015, 2016). In this research the fragments of comparative, linguogeographical and etymological analysis of the lexemes batkas ‘pole - part of skeleton of hut' (with derivates batkasina and its phonetic and semantic variant batkosina ‘small log, pole'), bachka ‘chest, breast of bird or man', byordysh ‘chicken wing used for household purposes' are presented. The materials for etymology of all lexemes are given in a same scheme - in the beginning the Kama dialect word, its interpretation and context(s) of its use in live speech are quoted; ather that the word is considered against the all-Russian language background; then the existing etymologies are discussed and some clarifications or new etymological solutions are proposed. In the first section, a) there is a discussion of the assumption of A. Ye. Anikin about the possibility of borrowing word batkas ‘pole - part of skeleton of hut' from the Komi language, b) the lexeme is compared with other Russian dialectal data, c) attention is focused on former existence in Mansi dialects of the lexeme kas ‘pole with forked end, (base)pole (eg. in brushwood hut)', d) Russian Tomsk dialect word kas ‘pole to which morda (trap net) is tied' is involved in comparison and the version of its origin is quoted. In the second section Komi etymology is offered for the word bachka ‘chest, breast of bird or man'. In the third section there is assumed that the word byordysh ‘chicken wing used for household purposes' is an adstrate Komi(-Permyak) infiltration.
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