Realization of the Seme Inspiration in the Root Morpheme ur- in Mongolian Languages

The article compares and analyzes the semantic connections of the word urm-a ‘inspiration, uplift (of spirit), good mood’ in the Mongolian languages with lexical units that have a common root element ur-/ür -. The purpose of the study is to determine motivating factors that contribute to the nomination of such an emotional state as inspiration, and to identify a number of semantically interrelated adjacent lexical-semantic groups. Thus, the work presents an understanding of the phonetic and semantic correlation in words with the common root element ur-/ür -. It allows us to explain the sound sensory reaction in response to the internal feeling of rising strength and energy as a manifestation of psychophysiology through sound-descriptive nominations and as a transfer of feeling to the emotional sphere when nominating a particular phenomenon. The acoustic-articulatory peculiarities of the trembling sonant [ r ] (beat, energy, force, impulse, movement) have been motivating in the nomination of the physiological sensation of internal force and energy motion in the Mongolian languages. Lexicographic data from written Mongolian, Khalkha-Mongolian, Buryat and Kalmyk languages served as factual material for the study. The author examines the Mongolian words derived from the stem urma - and the range of dictionary interpretations of key words presented in the Mongolian dictionaries, which verbalize such an emotional state of the subject as inspiration ( strength, uplifting spirit, desire ), illustrates word-formation series to convey a rich semantic palette of this state. The work also presents synonyms for the concept ‘inspiration’ with the sonant [ r ] in the root: WMo. sür ‘greatness; strength, power’; WMo. ǰori γ ‘courage; strength of will; aspiration’, WMo. ǰirüken ‘heart; soul; courage, bravery’. The rise of internal forces as a factor of the sound-symbolic nature of the root consonant [ r ] has become the main one in the determining and description of lexical units, which by their sound-semantic form and content are interconnected and united into thematic groups: rise (growth, upward movement – ergü - ‘to raise (up) ‘; ur γ u - ‘to grow’; üre ‘seed’; orgi - ‘to hit with a spring’; orboyi - ‘to be disheveled, to puff up’, etc.), before (south, before, forward – uru γ ši ‘forward; to the south; success, luck’; urida ‘before, forward’), to be first (to get ahead – öris - ‘to get ahead, to warn’), their relationship with each other.