Lexicographic activity of Shora Nogmov

Abstract

The article is devoted to the lexicographic activity of the Adyghe enlightener Shora Nogmov, who prepared the ‘Kabardino-Russian Dictionary’, which remained in manuscript and was published for the first time in 1956 with significant structural transformations by Professor Georgy Fedorovich Turchaninov. The article notes that the dictionary was prepared on the Russian graphical basis and the original was compiled according to the thematic principle. The dictionary covers a large lexical stratum of the Kabardino-Circassian language, which allows to present the richness of the Kabardino-Circassian language in the first half of the XIX century. Of particular interest in the dictionary entries is the lexical stratum, which in the modern language belongs to archaisms, dialectisms and regionalisms, which shows the peculiarities of the dynamics of the development of the lexicon of the Kabardino-Circassian language during the last two centuries. The anthroponyms, toponyms and names of months given in the article and functioning in the first half of the 19th century are also scientifically significant.

The conclusion suggests the idea of significant changes in the thematic ranks of the lexicon of the Kabardino-Circassian language due to historical, cultural and everyday transformations, and the necessity to publish the original manuscript version for a deeper analysis of the remarks and corrections presented in it in the process of work, which will make it possible to determine the peculiarities of preparing the dictionary for publication.