Olga I. Stremyanova

Postgraduate Student, Department of General Linguistics of I. G. Dobrodomov

Moscow Pedagogical State University

(Moscow, Russia)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22405/2712-8407-2024-3-119-128

Abstract. This article considers the history of the processes of assimilation of the Turkic loanword sunduk into the Russian language, as well as examines its role in the lexical and word-formation systems of the Russian language. Linguistic units, extracted from sources included in the National Corpus of the Russian Language and from historical, etymological and explanatory dictionaries, served as the main source of the research material. The analysis of the above-mentioned lexeme has revealed that the word sunduk, which entered the Russian language through the intermediary of Turkic languages in the meaning of ‘box’, has derivatives and continues to develop new figurative meanings. This is due, firstly, to the long-standing entry of this lexeme into the Russian language – the first fixation in the written language of the Old Russian period – in the early 16th century, and, secondly, to the spread of sunduk in the Russian people’s household as a piece of furniture. Nowadays, the sunduk as a piece of furniture and home decoration is practically not used in everyday life, nevertheless, the word sunduk itself, as well as the derivatives formed from it, are quite common in the active modern Russian language vocabulary. In addition, the lexeme sunduk develops figurative meanings based mostly on the similarity of the external shape of the designated object or on the similarity of its functions. The author concludes that the lexeme sunduk has a high degree of assimilation. The study also notes that the entry and consolidation of this lexeme, along with other lexemes, in the Russian language contributed to the enrichment of the lexical composition of the Russian language.
Keywords: Turkism, Turkic borrowings, lexemes of Turkic origin, derivative.

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For citation: Stremyanova, OI 2024, ‘The History of Origin and Derivatives of the Lexeme Sunduk in the Russian Language’, Tula Scientific Bulletin. History. Linguistics, issue 3 (19), pp. 119–128, http://doi.org/10.22405/2712-8407-2024-3-119-128 (in Russ.)

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