The names of rusin holidays as the evidence of linguistic and ethno-cultural specificity of the nation

The article analyses the names of Rusin holidays - secular (gulya'tika,zabava) and religious (Vodo'shchi, syachanky); the former are connected with the birth (urodi'ny christening (krest), wedding (gusky, sva'lba, svashchinfy funeral (koma'shnya, sorokovina) and labour activities of the person (dozhinky, miishanya, prya'hy), the latter - with the events of the Sacred history (Veikden', Zdvigy These words are considered bright culturally marked signs reflecting the values of the ethnos and are closely connected with the history of its development and formation of worldview and beliefs. The Rusin holiday names demonstrate the well-developed synonymy formed largely under the influence of the extra-linguistic factors, the most important of which was the living conditions of the people. Thus, the natural territorial isolation of the Carpathian Rusins contributed to the preservation of archaic festive rituals and/or their names (lopatky', o'tpust, Kerechun), with the latter including regional lexical units (Grumniitsi, haba'tnya). In its turn, the multicultural environment enhanced by a wide dispersal of people in a number of countries and the interruption of Orthodox tradition for the part of the Rusin ethnic group ensured the inflow of borrowings from related (Ruzdvo) and unrelated languages (A'dvent). The most overt trace was left by Hungarian (dinomda'nom,bogrejdovanya) and German (fashingyy),which indicates that in the past the Rusin territories were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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