Materials for the «Dictionary of oikonymy of Cherkasy area» (В)

The article continues the author’s series of publications on Ukrainian regional onomastics. The material under study is grouped according to lexical and semantic features, both internal and external, which form a basis of an oikonymic nomination, where each class of source propriatives has its own principles and methods of naming. Particular attention is focused on a detailed description of structural and grammatical features of two-component oikonyms, the main part of which is a noun combined with an attributive member. The dominant model turned up as “adjective + noun,” which arose as a result of combining administrative and economic or geographical terms with qualitative, possessive, relative adjectives and adjectonyms. Such definitions characterize an object by its physical soil properties, size, location, vegetation, etc. The process of naming the denotation was based on the principle of metonymy, synecdoche or as a result of metaphorical comparison. The compound nominations that have lost their productivity in modern oikonimia include the names of settlements, the motivational basis of which was a combination of Slavic autochthonous personal names of vicarious origin or Christian anthroponyms and administrative and economic terms. The research material allows us to state that the names of prepositional constructions (the so-called landmark oikonyms) are also not typical for the oikonymicon of Cherkasy area. The initial lexical base for the creation of such names was most often microtoponyms, less often – hydronyms and other oikonyms. At the same time, motivational relations that arose between a denotation and the oikonym at the time of naming are commented on, the influence of extralinguistic factors on the process of formation of the oikonymic system of Cherkasy area is established. Such names characterize an object by physical properties of the soil, size, location, nature of vegetation, etc. It is proved that semantic characteristics of the appellative and proprietary vocabulary differ significantly. It has been found that different classes of onymes have different criteria for a semantic analysis. The practical value of the article lies in the fact that the identified proper names of people from the archaic types of geographical names of Cherkasy area have replenished the pan-Slavic anthroponymicon of a studied region.