The symbolic meaning ‘water spirit’, motivated by landscape, hydrological and biogeographic features of the region

Yakushevich I. V., Ivashinina N. S.

The article is devoted to the analysis of sources of symbolic meaning ‘water spirit’ in several dialectal nominations: buchalen, sandpiper, volosatik, lopuhonya, Kamyshanov and kromeshnik. Information on the landscape and hydrological features of the locality in which dialectisms were recorded, as well as data on the ethology of some birds and worms, had a special influence on the internal form of these words.

Keywords:symbolic meaning, motivation, inner form, etymological meaning.