FROM <i>ΜΕΓΆΛΗἩΜΈΡΑ</i> TO <i>VEL''IKTEM</i>: THE ORIGIN AND FUNCTIONING OF NAMES FOR EASTER IN THE UDMURT LANGUAGE
The paper analyses the names for Easter in Udmurt dialects. The use of the linguo-geographic method allowed to clarify the etymology and functioning of some words. For example, the word akaška is mistakenly confused with akajaška in the latest dictionaries and ethnographic researches. In fact, these two words significantly differ from each other both in their meaning ( akajaška is used only for denoting the feast day of the first furrow) and in their origin ( akaška is derived from the Bulgar language, and akajaška comes from the Chuvash language).