The word zoori as a terminological property name in Buryat language of the 18-19th centuries(on the material of "The steppe law codes of the Khorinsk Buryats" and "The steppe law codes of the Selenga Buryats")

This article is devoted to the lexical and semantic analysis of the word zööri as a terminological name for the property in Buryat language of the 18-19th centuries. This word use in Buryat language of the 18-19th centuries will be studied on the material of the manuscripts of the written law of the Buryat people «Stepnyye ulozheniya selenginskikh buryat» («The Steppe Law Codes of the Khorinsk Buryats») and «Stepnyye ulozheniya khorinskikh buryat» («The Steppe Law Codes of the Selenga Buryats»). In this article the subject of the research is the word zööri and its participation in the terminological compound name khüdelkhe khüdelkhegüi zööri. It is traced which of the semantic features of the modern word zari and the lexical meanings developed on their basis were inherent in this lexeme in the Buryat language of the XVIII-XIX centuries. The word zööri was commonlyused in business texts of that time as a term for the generic concept of property. Initially, a definitional analysis is made of the property names in the specified sources for dictionaries of the modern Buryat language. Then, on the basis of the revealed semantic features of modern names of property in a comparatively historical aspect, the property vocabulary of the Buryat language of the 18th-19th centuries is considered.