Names for burial places among slavic peoples

The analyzed Slavic names for the object in which the deceased is buried mostly contain the idea of preserving, hiding, and moving the deceased and are related to burial as the dominant form of burial. It is likely that the similarity in appearance and function (closing, storing) of the coffin and the ?raka? (burial pit) influenced the original meaning of the lexeme ?raka? to be transferred from a designation for an object to the meaning ?burial pit?. The significance of moving mortal remains from one space (the space of the living) to another is reflected both in the verbs used to denote burial and in the names of cemeteries, with some of these names also referring to the manner in which the deceased was moved to their place of eternal rest - by dragging (on a sled). The names for the grave and cemetery, which are related to the place being on an elevation, can be linked, on the one hand, to the ancient practice of building burial mounds (kurgans), but also to folk ideas about the afterlife in the heavens. Dialectal names further illuminate folk ideas about that world as a place of peace, tranquility, and silence.