2025-03-11
SEMINAR ON LAND AND WATER NAMES IN KYRGYZ
On February 20, 2025, in Kasım Tınıstanov Hall, Dr. Kadiyan BOOBEKOVA, a lecturer from the Department of Educational Sciences, organized a seminar titled “The Formation Features of Kyrgyz Place and Water Names” (Кыргыз жер-суу аттарынын келип чыгышы).
The seminar was attended by academicians from the Faculty of Letters and students from various departments and was successful.
The seminar touched on the formation features of place names (toponymy) in Kyrgyz and the points that the Kyrgyz and Turkish peoples pay attention to when naming places. Some features of place names and water names are classified as follows:
1. Names related to the color of the place
2. Place names derived from plant names.
3. Names of places named after animals.
4. Names are given according to the number of objects, animals and plants found in the region.
5. Names given according to visions / appearances.
6. Place names according to ethnic groups or tribes.
7. Names given according to minerals found in the region.
8. Place names originating from fairy tales - legends
9. Names of places considered sacred.
10. Place names that have entered from another language or have undergone sound changes.
In these subjects, place and water names are explained with examples, how they are formed, where they come from, what they are sourced from, what they mean, which language they are taken from and how they are named in Kyrgyz are explained beautifully.
