Names of Games in the Yaroslavl Dialects
In the article words of the lexico-thematic group "Game" are considered. The work is based on the statement that the language serves as a means of comprehension and understanding of the culture. Studying of the language in the ratio with work and spiritual culture of the people allows to reveal semantics of dialectal words, to characterize the reasons of appearance of these or those lexemes. The lexicon of dialects is considered to be one of the main sources to study features of mentality of the Russian people of this or that region, and an ethnolinguistic aspect is one of the main aspects in study of the language picture of the world. The lexico- thematic group "Game" is directly connected with traditional culture of the Russian person. In the article the lexico-semantic subgroups containing this seme "game" are considered: names of subjects by means of which game was carried out; names of games from the point of view of the age aspect; names of participants of games; lexical units nominating games with any auxiliary subjects or attributes; names of actions which are carried out during games. The special attention in the article is paid to the names which appeared from associative understanding of certain subjects and phenomena of everyday life. A great number of the dialecticisms duplicating traditional names of the Russian games in the Yaroslavl dialects speaks about prevalence of such a form of entertainment and that the person was focused on collective pastime.