Promising Directions for Continuing the Study of N. Witsen’s List of Mordovian Words

Authors: Valerevich BN*

DOI: 10.23880/aeoaj-16000207

Volume 6, Issue 1

Abstract

The article theses the promising directions of continuing the research of N. Witsen’s “List of Mordovian Words”, published by him in 1692. The following directions were chosen: the circumstances of collecting materials for the source; the place of collecting materials for the source; the ethnolanguage definition of informants; the method of collecting materials from the source; the semantics of some Mordovian lexemes in the second half of the XVII century and its significance for modern Mordovian lexicology. The author’s own field materials are also used

Keywords: Moksha-Mordovian Language; Erzya-Mordovian Language; Lexicography; Lexicology; N. Witsen

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