Equivalence and Lacunarity of Dialectal Vocabulary of the Lezgin (Based on the Vocabulary of the Akhty Dialect)

Abstract

The article examines some original words of the Akhty dialect from the point of view of their equivalence or lacunarity in relation to the lexemes of the Lezgin literary language. Their semantic equivalents in the literary language are given, usually presented in the form of descriptive constructions or borrowed words. A comparative-contrastive analysis of lexical units of the dialect and literary language (in some cases with the involvement of materials from other languages ​​of the Lezgin group) indicate the archaism and originality of the dialectal forms, their belonging to the Right-East Lezgin (or more ancient) and Akhty chronological levels; the loss or initial lacunarity of the original forms under consideration in the literary language.