Open AccessKHAKAS LEXSEME ХАРАХ'EYE; EYES' AS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN THE PERSONAL AND SPIRITUAL NATURE OF A HUMAN
Author(s) -
М. Д. Чертыкова
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
teoretičeskaâ i prikladnaâ lingvistika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2410-7190
DOI - 10.22250/2410-7190_2019_5_4_140_151
Subject(s) - lexeme , plural , linguistics , noun , psychology , representation (politics) , categorization , philosophy , politics , political science , law
The present article aims to identify and describe semantic-cognitive features of the lexeme Harah 'eye; eyes' representation in the Khakas language. Eyes are not only a visual organ characterized by varying colors, certain physical features, they also represent a whole system of visual behavior. In Khakas, there are 27 phraseological units with the somatism харах, most of which describe particular patterns of a visual act. As a result of the study, it can be argued that the role of the lexeme харах'eye; eyes' is significant in the linguistic reflection of the physical and spiritual nature of a human. The use of the plural noun form in translating the word from Khakas is symbolic due to the fact that in Khakas as well as other Turkic and some Finno-Ugric languages plural form is rarely used to denote pair items.