VOCABULARY OF BUDDHIST COSMOLOGY IN THE TUVAN LANGUAGE
Saaya Oyumaa Maadyr-oolovna
Tuvan Institute for the Humanities and Applied Socio-Economic Studies
Abstract. The article considers the Tuvan lexemes, representing the notions of Buddhist cosmology. Attention is paid to the lexico-semantic, comparative analysis of this lexico-semantic group, to the phonetic transformation of the borrowed terms. The source languages for the foreign vocabulary are revealed. As a result, the conclusion is drawn that the terms of Buddhist cosmology function in the modern Tuvan language. There are a lot of borrowings among them. Some terms have polysemy in the Tuvan language and are mentioned in shamanic chants as well as in the Buddhist discourse.
Key words and phrases: буддийская космология, тувинский язык, термины, заимствования, лексема, рукопись, значение термина, калька, семантика, Buddhist cosmology, Tuvinian language, terms, borrowings, lexical unit, manuscript, term meaning, borrowing, calque, semantics
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