PhytoLex, bază de date cu nume de plante: rezultate şi perspective

• Published in: Diacronia (Iași) no. 14; pp. 1 - 7
• Main Authors: Kolosova, Valeria B, Kovalenko, Kira I, Molkov, Georgy A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Romanian, Moldovan
• Published: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi 2021; The Publishing House of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
• Subjects: 16th Century; 17th Century; Eastern Slavic Languages; Historical Linguistics; Lexis; Middle Ages; Semantics; old literature; ethnolinguistics; religious literature; historical lexicology; historical semantics
• ISSN: 2393-1140

Russian plant names are a semantic group poorly represented in historical dictionaries. During the project “Russian phytonyms in diachronic aspect (11th– 17th c.)” (2017–2020), the PhytoLex database was created, which contains plant names recorded in Russian texts of the 11th–17th centuries. The population of the database was accompanied by research work devoted to various issues relating to the representation of plant names in the Russian language in general, and in particular in relation to some specific genres: herbals, documents of the Apothecary Chancery, business documents, church literature and lexicons. Some earlier unknown plant names were identified. These database materials will be the basis for the dictionary of Old Russian plant names, draft word entries for which have been compiled. Technical solutions will be used during the creation of a further database representing plant names recorded in later periods of the Russian language.