Names of clothes and footwear in Russian dialects of the Simbirsk Volga region: ethnolinguistic and areal aspects

This article deals with a thematic group of names of clothes and footwear in the Russian dialects of the Ulyanovsk region. The relevance of singling out and studying this group of vocabulary is associated with the rapid disappearance of traditional names from the speech and memory of dialect speakers. In addition to the traditional classification of lexemes within a group and the study of motivational features of lexemes, the ethnolinguistic approach has been pursued in this study uses, and functional, areal, and etymological aspects have been considered. The research showed a certain degree of preservation of some traditional names of clothes and footwear due to the existing tradition of using old peasant clothes for mummery during different holidays. The observation made can also be accounted for by a long tradition of producing some items of clothes and footwear in the Volga region. The results of linguistic interaction have been revealed in the group of words under analysis. Among the names of clothes and footwear in the Russian dialects of the Simbirsk Volga region, some of the lexemes can be identified as historicisms, some as regional lexical elements, and some as local elements.