THE NAMES OF MEN’S HEADGEAR IN PIDHAYTSI SUBDIALECTS OF TERNOPIL REGION

Abstract

The names of men’s headgear used in Pidhaytsi district are investigated in the article. Pidhaytsi subdialects are central part of the Naddnistrianshchyna dialect and to a certain extent represent the characteristic features of subdialects of the Naddnistrianshchyna dialect of the southwestern supradialect.
Pidhaytsi district is located in the western part of Ternopil region. The areal of Pidhaytsi district borders with Terebovlya, Buchach, Monastyrysk, Berezhany and Kozova districts of Ternopil region and Halych district of Ivano-Frankivsk region.
Nowadays, many thematic groups of Ukrainian subdialects vocabulary as well as large communicative arrays remain unexplored. The areals that are not sufficiently studied include Pidhaytsi subdialects. Its lexemes enrich the Ukrainian language. The lexical units of the subdialect are names, that have the same meaning in other Ukrainian dialects, many of them are universal and normative, but at the same time they are characterized by a number of features.
The connection with one of the most flexible elements of material culture is special feature of the household vocabulary of Pidhaytsi subdialects that makes it dynamic and unfixed. Therefore, the active development process of enriching the group of the names of clothing does not finish.