Lexical Expression of Presentiment in Mongolic Languages

This article considers a number of lexemes used to express premonition in Mongolic languages in order to identify, if possible, the motives of nomination and their connection with the psychophysiological state of a person who has a premonition of something, in most cases bad. The word ǰöng assumes the “voicing” of a feeling of anxiety comparable to an internal buzz. It indicates the syncretism of the semantics of linguistic units, semantic features, which motivate metaphorical and metonymic transfers to intermodal spheres. It demonstrates the phenomenon of synesthesia in the field of designating physical sensations. In the word iru-a, the leading role in the nomination is given to the trembling of the tongue at the moment of articulation of the sonant [r], which conveys disturbing sensations, mainly localized in the thoracic part. In the word belge, there was probably a metonymic transfer from the meaning of ‘sign as a material object’ to ‘sign, omen’. Research in this way allows deeper understanding the importance of the system of interpretation of sensory information transmitted through various sensations in the body.