Motivational sings of the nomination of wildlife objects in the olyokma yakuts' vocabulary

The present article is devoted to the study of motivational signs of the nomination of wildlife objects in the Olyokma Yakuts' vocabulary. The research material was collected during the linguistic field research in the Olyokma District, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), from August 12 to 20, 2022. Empirical material was collected through a survey of 24 respondents residing in the Olyokma District. The recorded material contains words that were not previously registered in lexicographic sources; which for the first time are subjected to scientific processing in the framework of this article, which determines the relevance of the presented work. The study applies descriptive analysis to identify the main patterns of motivational signs of wildlife object nomination in the dialectal vocabulary of Olekma Yakuts and quantitative-statistical method in order to find out the most productive models of their formation. During the study 29 lexical units were distributed into the following groups: phytonyms (45%), zoonyms (34.4%), ichthyonyms (17.2%), myconyms (3.4%). As the study statistics show, the overwhelming majority of the material consists of phytonyms and zoonyms. The Olyokma District has a relatively mild climate compared to the rest of Yakutia. Accordingly, the local areas are very interesting in terms of floristic and faunistic diversity. In Olyokma District there is no such abundance of ichthyofauna as, for instance, in Arctic regions of Yakutia. And, as our study has shown, ichthyonims in the dialect of Olyokma Yakuts are not so abundant (17.2%). And the presence of a small percentage of myconyms (3.4%) was initially assumed. The culture of eating mushrooms as food is not so developed among Yakuts, as our ancestors obtained all necessary substances from animal and plant products from ancient times.

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