Chur ( tsur ) - interjection in the East Slavic languages .
According to researchers of the XIX century, the word goes back to the name of the Slavic god of the patrimonial center, protecting the boundaries of land holdings. Such an understanding was popular among 19th century scholars (see Cabinet mythology ). V.O. Klyuchevsky wrote: “An enriched ancestor was honored under the name of Chur, in the Church Slavonic form of Schur; this form has hitherto survived in the complex word of ancestors ... Tradition that left its marks in the language gives Chur a meaning identical with the Roman Term , the meaning of the guardian of patrimonial fields and borders. " [1] The same explanation is in the small dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : " Chur, Slavic. mythol. deity borderline. signs, patronized the acquisition and profit. The symbol is chocks and lumps, that is, boundary signs ” [2] .
Nevertheless, by the time of Max Fasmer considerable doubts had accumulated in the existence of such a deity. He himself rejects the connection of the word “chock” and the semantics of the border with the expression “chur me!” How unreliable the etymologist cites versions of the origin of interjections from the Russian “ devil ”, borrowing from Greek or Chuvash [3] .
According to D.K. Zelenin [4] and A. B. Strakhov [5] , the word goes back to Greek. κύρ (ιος) "Lord, Lord" and originally meant "Lord!", "God, God forbid!"
NI Tolstoy for the first time connected the emergence of interjections "chur" with phallic symbolism [6] . This hypothesis was subsequently replenished with new data and is still relevant [7] .
Notes
- ↑ Lecture 8 // Klyuchevsky V.O. The course of Russian history .
- ↑ Chur // Small Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 4 volumes - St. Petersburg. 1907-1909.
- ↑ Fasmer's Etymological Dictionary. Page 838
- ↑ Zelenin D.K. Taboo words among the peoples of Eastern Europe and North Asia. Part II Bans in home life. S. 93.
- ↑ Strakhov A. B. East Slavic chur : from children's play to adult magic // Palaeoslavica. V. 1 (1993). S. 41-86.
- ↑ Tolstoy N.I. chur and nonsense // International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, 1985, No. XXXI-XXXII. - S. 431-437.
- ↑ Dulichenko A. D. Once again about the Russian chur // Philological notes , 1994, No. 3. - P. 125—127
Literature
- Otin E. S. Toponymy of the Kulikov Field (Chur Mikhailov - Chury Mikhailov) // Selected works. (Volume 1) / E.S. Otin; M-education of Ukraine, Donetsk state. un-t - Donetsk: Donetsk region, 1997. - S. 253-266. - 470 s. (in per.)
- Chur // Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language = Russisches etymologisches Wörterbuch : in 4 vol. / Ed. M. Fasmer ; per. with him. and add. Corr. USSR Academy of Sciences O. N. Trubacheva , ed. and with the foreword. prof. B. A. Larina [vol. I]. - Ed. 2nd, erased - M .: Progress , 1986-1987.