EVENK HYDRONYMS IN THE REPUBLIC OF SAKHA (YAKUTIA) AND BURYATIA(SEMANTIC AND ETYMOLOGICAL ASPECTS)

Abstract

The Evenk anthroponymic system proper is associated with the Evenki worldview, with the cultural picture of the world and is reconstructed in the toponymy of a particular region. The Evenks of South Yakutia, like Buryatia, still adhere to traditional beliefs, among which shamanism, totemism, animism, hunting cults and cults of local host spirits should be noted. There is also a widespread cult of fire and hearth and home, reverence for the forces of nature, individual animals, etc. The main task of the research is to restore the semantic, etymological meaning of hydronyms of Evenk origin. Linguistic research of the Evenk hydronyms requires not so much information from the geography, history and social environment of the Evenks, as knowledge of the minority marginal language of the autochthonous people of Siberia. The practical result of linguistic research should be an etymological study of toponymic vocabulary of Evenk origin as a process of elemination of different types of lacunae and the creation of dictionaries and reference books for normative word use in the process of everyday communication of the Evenks.