doi:10.18454/RULB.2022.29.1.21

TOPONYMS WITH THE TREE-NAME-COMPONENT: SOCIOСULTURAL ANALYSIS

Research article

Abramova E. I.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18454/RULB.2022.29.1.21

Issue: № 1 (29), 2022

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Abramova E. I.

Moscow State Regional University, Mytishchi, Russia

Abstract

The paper describes the sociocultural character of place names with dendronymic components. It argues that place names, being elements of language, with dendronymic components have cultural, social and ethnological value, related to Celtic and Germanic traditions, which evolved in Anglo-Saxon times and took hold later. The article discusses cultural, social and historical factors of using the dendronyms oak, thorn, birch, willow, yew, elm, tree, beam in British place names. As the product of the development of natural environment by man, the tree was integrated into man’s social and economic relations, thus acquiring cultural and religious value in a particular ethnic and historical social group.

Keywords:

dendronym, toponym, tree, anglo-saxon, sociocultural.

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