SCOTTISH NATIONAL CULTURAL PECULIARITIES IN THE HYDRONYMICON OF SCOTLAND
This article deals with the Scottish hydronyms within the framework of the linguosemiotic approach in order to identify the landmark realia of the Scottish linguoculture. As a result of the analysis the biological diversity is revealed, the peculiarities of folklore and mythology, household, labor and spiritual spheres of life of the Scottish people are identified. The author pays attention to the semantics of the hydronymic layer, and singles out such types of hydronyms as oceanonyms, pelagonyms, limnonyms, potamonyms and gelonyms.