The Turkic and Mongol Lexical Units in Dairy Cattle Terms as Used in the Mongol Languages
Valentin Ivanovich RassadinKalmyk State University, Department of the Kalmyk language and Mongolian studies, Director of the Mongolian and Altaistic research scientific centre,Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, 358000, the Republic of Kalmykia, Elista, Pushkin st., 11.
Abstract: This article is concerned with lexical parallels in the dairy cattle terminology in the Turkic and Mongol languages. It is also focused on the archetypes and etymology of the Turkic-Mongol parallels under study. In the course of the research we have analysed traditional Mongol languages and the Ancient Turkic language to check the etymological background of the modern Turkic words. The comparative analysis of the Turkic-Mongol parallels in dairy cattle terms embrace lexical units connected with reproductive cattle names, their physical features, cattle handling either in stalls or distant pastures, shepherds’ way of life, various forage grasses and watering points. As a result, we have concluded that these Turkic-Mongol parallels used in the Mongol languages are clearly of the Turkic origin. Therefore, the ancient Mongols borrowed the dairy cattle vocabulary from the Turkic peoples at the time of the Common Mongol protolanguage.
Keywords: the Mongol languages; the Turkic parallels; etymology; dairy cattle terms; reproductive cattle names; cattle handling; a distant pasture; forage grasses; cattle watering; loanwords Back to TOC