Open Access'SPEAK' IN VEPSIAN: NAMES OF SOME VERBS OF SPEECH IN THE VEPSIAN LANGUAGE (linguo-geographic and semantic-etymological aspects)
Author(s) -
Зайцева Нина Григорьевна,
Жукова Ольга Юрьевна
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ežegodnik finno-ugorskih issledovanij
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2311-0333
pISSN - 2224-9443
DOI - 10.35634/2224-9443-2021-15-3-376-388
Subject(s) - linguistics , onomatopoeia , tone (literature) , semantics (computer science) , reduplication , psychology , computer science , philosophy , programming language
This article is devoted to the consideration of speech verbs of the Vepsian language, their motivational and etymological analysis. From the point of view of semantics, the speech verbs of the Vepsian language are presented in the article in the following groups: speak for a rather long time while waiting for a possible answer ( pagišta, lodeita / lobaata, bast'a / basida ); speak briefly, often without waiting for an answer ( sanuda / sanda; virkta ); speak in a higher tone without waiting for an answer ( kirkta, heikta, värskahtada, kriknida ); talk trifles, babble, chatter ( vahtostada, vahtaita, bul'butada, buleita, pärpätada, tötötada, lollotada, tängotada, häblätada ); speak, pronounce conspiracies, prayers ( puhuda, puiteida, loita ). Most of the Vepsian verbs of speech are Finnic heritage ( pagišta, sanuda, virkta, kirkta, bul'aita, tötötada, lollotada ), some are Vepsian innovations ( vahtostada, vahtaita ) or borrowings from the Russian language ( bast'a, buodahvita ), some are not yet amenable to etymologization ( tängotada, häblätada ). The motives for the emergence of the verbs of this semantics are, first of all, onomatopoeia ( pagišta 'to speak'