Agricultural Vocabulary in Documents of the Kuva Plant of Perm Province

The article is devoted to the description of dialect linguistic units related to the sphere of agriculture in the documents of the Kuva plant of Perm province, which operated in the second half of the XIX - early XX century. It has been established that the analyzed language units are mainly included in three thematic groups: 1) procedural vocabulary related to hay-making, 2) names of agricultural buildings and their parts, 3) geographical terms naming various land plots. As a result of the analysis of the material, it was concluded that, along with the general Russian words, dialectal language units are often used in the sources; together they can form a series of synonyms. The choice of dialectic words to designate the realities of agriculture may be associated with their narrower, more specific meaning compared to common lexemes. A comparison of the regional vocabulary found in Kuva documents with the materials from other regions shows the presence of both lexemes widespread in different territories and specifically Perm regional units (shutyom, palyozh). The author of the article comes to the conclusion these words are used in documents constantly as terms, which may be due to their prevalence in the speech of local residents. It is assumed that many of the analyzed linguistic units were not considered dialectal in the 19th century and were actively used in in official papers, but gradually fell out of use and were preserved only in dialects. Thus, the documents of the Kuva Factory reflect the interaction of formal language vocabulary with the lexical system of colloquial language, which included a large number of dialectal linguistic units.