Names of horse coat colors in the Bashkir language: Genesis, development, and semantics

R.T. Muratova

Order of the Badge of Honour Institute of History, Language, and Literature,

Ufa Federal Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450054 Russia

E-mail: bairima@yandex.ru

Received August 10, 2020

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Full text PDF

DOI: 10.26907/2541-7738.2021.1.19-29

For citation: Muratova R.T. Names of horse coat colors in the Bashkir language: Genesis, development, and semantics. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2021, vol. 163, no. 1, pp. 19–29. doi: 10.26907/2541-7738.2021.1.19-29. (In Russian)

Abstract

The names of mixed horse coat colors in the Bashkir language were analyzed in etymological, comparative-historical, and lexical-semantic aspects. Based on the results of the analysis, the following color names were identified as the most common ones: qola ‘dun’, saptar ‘skewbald’, burtä ‘dark bay’, turï ‘bay’, burїl ‘roan’, kir ‘bay with yellowish markings’, buð/kük ‘gray’, ala ‘piebald’, sïbar ‘motley’. The above color names are mainly independent lexemes meaning exclusively the colors of horse coats (except for buð, kük, ala, sïbar). The lexemes qola, turï, buð, kük, ala, and sїbar go back to the Proto-Turkic language. The color names burïl, saptar, and kir are the Mongolian borrowings. The word bürtӓ is confined to a particular geographic area. The names qola, turï, buð, ala, and sїbar were detected in the ancient Turkic written monuments, which confirms their long history of active use in the language of the Turks.

Keywords: names of horse coat colors, Bashkir language, Turkic languages

References

1. Sponenberg D.P., Bellone R. Equine Color Genetics. Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. 338 p.
2. Bowling A.T., Ruvinsky A. The Genetics of the Horse. Cabi Publ., 2000. 535 p.
3. Krasnikov A.S. Ekster’er loshadi [Horse Conformation]. Moscow, Izd. Librokom, 2011. 352 p. (In Russian)
4. Nadergulov U.F. Zhivotnovodcheskaya leksika bashkir [Livestock Vocabulary of the Bashkir Language]. Ufa, Gilem, 2000. 186 p. (In Russian)
5. Kormushin I.V. Color naming. In: Sravnitel’no-istoricheskaya grammatika tyurkskikh yazykov. Leksika [Comparative-Historical Grammar of the Turkic Languages. Lexis]. Moscow, Nauka, 2001, pp. 592–608. (In Russian)
6. Muratova R.T. Color naming in the Bashkir language (based on the terms körӓn ‘brown’ and quŋïr ‘reddish’. Problemy Vostokovedeniya, 2018, no. 4, pp. 65–70. (In Russian)
7. Muratova R.T. The color term harï ‘yellow’ in the Bashkir language: Genesis, development, and lexical-semantic description. Uralo-Altaiskie Issledovaniya, 2018, no. 2, pp. 53–70. (In Russian)
8. Muratova R.T. Historical development and semantics of the color term aq ‘white’ in the Bashkir language (against the common Turkic background). Tomskii Zhurnal Lingvisticheskikh i Antropologicheskikh Issledovanii, 2020, no. 1, pp. 21–31. doi: 10.23951/2307-6119-2020-1-21-31. (In Russian)
9. Bozhedonova A.E. Etymological characteristics of the main horse coat color names in the Yakut language. Vestnik Severo-Vostochnogo Federal’nogo Universiteta imeni M.K. Ammosova, 2019, no. 4, pp. 92–104. (In Russian)
10. Borisova I.Z. The specifics of horse coat color terms in the Yakut language and their translation into the Russian and French languages. Vestnik Buryatskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, 2013, no. 10, pp.83–88. (In Russian)
11. Kuular E.M.-O. Lexemes for horse coat color naming in the Tuvan language. Mir Nauki, Kul’tury i Obrazovaniya, 2017, no. 6, pp. 441–443. (In Russian)
12. Malysheva N.V., Bozhedonova A.E. Lexical-semantic characteristics of adjectives describing chestnut color of horse coat in the Yakut language. Vestnik Severo-Vostochnogo Federal’nogo Universiteta imeni M.K. Ammosova, 2018, no. 2, pp. 120–127. (In Russian)
13. Mongush B.M., Yuldashbaev Yu.A. Some basic colors and markings of the Tuvan sporting horses. Vestnik Tuvinskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Estestvennye i Sel’skokhozyaistvennye. Nauki, 2015, no. 2, pp. 146–151. (In Russian)
14. Iskhakova G.A. On the Tatar names of horse coat colors. Vestnik Chuvashskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, 2008, no. 3, pp. 151–154. (In Russian)
15. Yagafarova G.N. Horse coat color naming in the Bashkir language. Vestnik Cherepovetskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, 2011, vol. 1, no. 28, p. 70–74. (In Russian)

The content is available under the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.