Два первых коми словаря, издан­ные в Коми крае в начале XX века [The First Two Komi Dictionaries, Published in the Komi Region at the Beginning of the XX Century]

Abstract

The paper provides brief biographies of the compilers of the first printed dictionaries of the Komi language, Andrey Andreevich Tsember and Nikolay Aleksandrovich Shakhov. Their goals and procedures in compiling the dictionaries, their materials, methods of presentation, and the types of defining word meanings are analyzed. In general, both dictionaries, the Russian–Komi-Zyrian dictionary by Andrey Tsember (1910) and the concise Komi-Russian dictionary by Nikolay Shakhov (1924) played a great role in the development of Komi linguistics, culture, education and national consciousness of the Komi at the beginning of the 20th century.

Keywords

• permic languages; komi linguistics; lexicology; historical lexicography; bilingual dictionaries of the early 20th century