Hyperonymic nominations for lowlands in the Orel dialects
This article deals with the geographical appellatives, which express general, generic term in designating depressions and lowlands. The total amount of approximately 30 lexical units is used in the Orel dialects to denominate this landform, of which 11 can be seemed as hyperonyms, namely niz, nizina, log, ložbina, loščina, logovina, ložina, lozinka, loinka, jendova, jendovišče. The study of dialectal lexical units which denote geographical objects, as well as the understanding of system connections between words, allows us to recreate the perception of surrounding reality in traditional folk categories and to comprehend the peculiarities constituting the language-specific worldview of a Russian person. The analysis involves the data of etymology and linguogeography.