Names of Russian and Bulgarian Orthodox Holy Days: Classification Criteria
The paper gives an outline of principles and criteria applied in classification of words for holy days <i>(heortonyms) </i>in Russian and Bulgarian. Particular attention is devoted to the description of colloquial Russian and Bulgarian heortonyms. They constitute a heterogeneous group and are described partly as completely new lexical items and partly as lexical and derivational modifications represented by shortened (reduced) forms. A list of features necessary to identify a heortonymic formula is provided as well.