The Relicts of Middle-Bulgharian Epoch in the Chuvash Language: Verbal Nouns with - <i>ăx</i>/- <i>ĕх </i>Affixes
The purpose of the study is the identification of the relicts of middle Bulgharian epoch in the historical lexicon of the Chuvash language.The used method is based on the identification of doublets - words that have the same or nearly the same meaning, but different in terms of historical derivation.These differences are identified on the basis of information about the historical development of the Turkic languages with respect to the ancient Turkic, lexicalized in the runic monuments ofthe VIII-IX centuries, which are parallel to the ancient Bulghar.The archaic verbal nouns in the Chuvash languages, ending with affixes - ăx /- ĕх that arerelicts of the middle Bulgharian epoch are described in the articleTheir archaism is proved by their paucity and the presence of their parallels - more modernverbal nouns, ending with affixies - ă /- ĕ with the same meaning, as well as by the fact that one ofthese archaic words - pulăx “harvest” (from the verb pul- - “to be”, “to become”, “to (become)ripe”) was borrowed from the middle Bulgharian language into Persian where nowadays it is anobsolete word - Persian bolġε “one’s living”, “vital bread”. This word - bolġε comes from themiddle Bulgharian * bolăgă, * bolgă < bolăx + the 3rd person affix - ă ~ the modern Chuvash affix ofthe 3rd person - ĕ/- (и ) ~ upper Chuvash dialect - -ă/-ĕ (-и).The field of the results application is historical linguistics and periodization of the Bulghar andChuvash languages, as well as the reconstruction of the middle Bulgharian language.