Essays on Slavic Somatic Vocabulary

Abstract

The monograph is an attempt to reconstruct the Proto-Slavic system of naming the body parts. The author concentrates on restoring the exact semantics and morphological appearance of these designations. For the most part of the words included in the monograph he considers the existing etymologies and puts forward several new ones. For some of the body parts, an attempt was made to collect and systematize innovative names, to establish the main directions of semantic drifts and methods of nomination.