SPATIAL PROPRIATIVE NOMENCLATURE OF M. KHANENKO’S «DIARY»
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Introduction. The article addresses the issues of regional historical microtoponymy, which remains insufficiently developed due to its fluid nature and tight connection with local dialects, history, and cultural identity. The source base is the Diary of Mykola Khanenko (first half of the 18th century), an important ego-document containing a dense layer of proper names designating small geographic objects that are often absent from other written records.
Purpose. The study aims to comprehensively analyze and classify the microtoponymic space recorded in M. Khanenko’s Diary within a diachronic framework Methods. A complex of general and specialized linguistic methods is applied, including descriptiveanalytical, lexical-semantic, historical-comparative, contextual, discourse, and component analysis, alongside
source-studying and comparative-cartographic methods involving 19th-century statistical data and maps.
Results. The study categorizes the extracted microtoponyms into narrow onymic classes (oronyms, sepulcronyms, prepuntonyms, agroonyms, potamonyms, remigationyms, molinonyms, pontonyms, pyleonyms, domonyms, arconyms, and drimonyms). It differentiates stable regional microtoponymy from individual, situational spatial markers. Authentic phonetic and lexical variations of the 18th-century live speech [e.g., Вора (Vora), Імшицкое (Imshitskoe), Доч (Doch)] are reconstructed, and original etymological and historical-cultural commentaries are provided for specific configurations [such as the sepulcronym Могила Дѣвка (Mohyla Dievka)].
Originality. The research overcomes the traditional fragmentation in studying the monument’s onomasticon and expands the boundaries of the term «microtoponym» by defining it as a hyperonym that can include adjacent classes (urbanonyms, pragmatonyms) under specific textual conditions. A rigorous methodological algorithm for verifying historical onymic material is developed to prevent the misinterpretation of «illusory oponyms» caused by archaic polysemy.
Conclusion. Analyzing M. Khanenko’s Diary allows for the systematic integration of a unique microtoponymic layer of Eastern Polissia into scientific discourse and captures the author’s perception of foreign geographic spaces. Future research lies in utilizing other contemporary ego-documents to construct a comprehensive historical microtoponymic atlas of Hetmanate-era Ukraine.
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