The article is an analysis of the agricultural vocabulary which further on turned into basic words in the lexical stock of the Tajik language. It is stated that agricultural terminology is connected with rites and traditions of the branch; the former differs from other lexical strata of the language both semantically‚ structurally and stylistically. To prove her considerations the author adduces the examples of words formed by suffixal-prefixal and other word-building ways. She notes that agricultural vocabulary and terminology occur in manuscripts pertaining to the ancientest Tajik-Iranian originals. The conclusion is made that the development of terminological vocabulary of the Tajik language devoted to rites and traditions related to calendar agricultural activities of peasants is connected with semantic-grammatical potentialities of Modern Tajik and also with lexical borrowings and calques from Arabic‚ Turkic and Russian.
vocabulary‚ agricultural terminology‚ word building‚ agricultural branch‚ agricultural crop‚ agricultural calendar‚ agriculture
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