On the Origin of the Russian Kuter’ma

The article is devoted to the Russian word kuter’ma, which a lot of etymologists consider a borrowing from Turkic languages. Most researchers (V. I. Dal’, A. G. Preobrazhensky, N. V. Goryaev, M. Vasmer, P. Y. Chernych), except for A. I. Sobolevsky, who supposed this word was of Slavic origin, had ascribed it to different Turkic lexemes. However, none of the researchers could come up with the clear etymology of the word ans there is no common opinion from which Turkic word the lexeme kuter’ma derived. This article supposes that the word kuter’ma has Russian origin and is included in the lexical famili with the root *kut-, like the verb kutit’ (in it’s first meaning ‘to whirl’). To confirm it author refers to the dialect material. Russian dialects contain a lot of variable forms of the word kuter’ma (kutelitsa, kutel’, kutel’ba, kutel’ga, kutel’ma, kuter(‘)ga, kutern’a, kuter’ba, kuter’a, kuter’aga, kut’okha, kutiga, kutilovka, kutikha etc.), which illustrate its suffixal character. Moreover, dialects conserved the first semantic of the word kuter’ma ‘the blizzard’ which later transformed into the modern literary semantic ‘the disorder, upset, chaos’. So, the word kuter’ma is formed from the verb kutit’ in its primary meaning with the help of suffixes and first used to mean ‘blizzard’.

Keywords

Russian etymology, Turkisms, dialects, forms of the word, figurative meaning of the word

Acknowledgment

The article was supported by the RFBR grant as a part of the project No. 19-012-00059 “The vocabulary of Slavic languages as the heritage and development of the Proto-Slavic lexical fund: word-formation, semantic and etymological aspects of analysis in lexicographic representation”.

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02.03.2022

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03.03.2022

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GOST	Gorbushina I. On the Origin of the Russian Kuter’ma // Russkaya Rech’ – 2022. – C. 61-70 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/rusrech/s013161170018740-3-1-en (circulation date: 03.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013161170018740-3
MLA	Gorbushina, Irina A "On the Origin of the Russian Kuter’ma." Russkaya Rech’ 1 (2022):61-70. DOI: 10.31857/S013161170018740-3
APA	Gorbushina I. (2022). On the Origin of the Russian Kuter’ma. Russkaya Rech’ (1), pp.61-70 DOI: 10.31857/S013161170018740-3

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