Удмуртские названия чистотела (Chelidonium L.) и их параллели в других финно-пермских языках [Udmurt Designations for Celandine (Chelidonium L.) and Their Parallels in Other Finno-Permic Languages]

The article deals with folk designations (phytonyms) that denote the plant celandine (Chelidonium L.) and its most widespread species, the greater celandine (Celidonium majus L.). The author reviews the designations attested in Udmurt and searches for their parallels in three other Finno-Permic languages, Komi-Permyak, Komi, and Finnish. The analysis includes motivations for the designations and their nominational characteristics as well as ethnolinguistic and etymological comments. The research is descriptive, contrastive, and comparative. The result is that the folk designations of celandine have the following motivations: its usage in folk medicine, several folk beliefs connected with the plant, flowering time, colour, surface features, and the presence of latex in the plantâ s parts

Folk culture · Folk medicine · Folk song · Parallels · Geological Studies and Exploration · Mineralogy and Gemology Studies · Molecular spectroscopy and chirality