THE STRUCTURE OF THE ONYMOUS SPACE OF THE MODERN UKRAINIAN VILLAGE: PROBLEMS OF SUSTAINABILITY

Abstract

The proper names of any language are a special cultural layer that reflects the people's worldview, the peculiarities of their economy, lifestyle, relationships, and their sense of self among close, surroundings, and the universe as a whole. The onymic words of a particular settlement are a kind of verbal coordinates in which its inhabitant lives.First of all, these are people with their official and colloquial names of individuals and families/clans. The names of geographical objects, large and small, known far beyond the region and only within it; names of linear (streets, squares, corners, hamlets) denotations, which in modern realities can have several names. Economic activity is reflected in words denoting certain enterprises, organizations, institutions, locations where it is carried out, and in the village, these are also the names of domesticated animals and birds. The spiritual quests of the inhabitants are realized in the names of churches, prayer houses, and cultural institutions. These individual onymic fields make up the onymic space of the settlement, which is always original, never literally repeated anywhere or by anyone. But it is not immutable, because the fluid life that changes the architecture of any space, including the onymic one, raises the natural question: what and how affects the stability of the onymic space as a whole and its individual fields?The proposed article attempts to describe observations on the unique functioning of proper name fields in Tsybuleve village, Kropyvnytskyi district (formerly Znamianka district) of the Kirovohrad region. The scientific interest is projected onto the stable/variable in the onymic names of rural objects, the reasons and directions of updating groups of certain names, the disappearance or appearance of new fields. The entire onymic space did not become the object of research, since the interest is aroused by unique groups that distinguish one settlement from another at the level of proper names.