THE TITLE “ZORETSVIT”: PREVALENCEON THE TERRITORY OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the use of the neologism zoretsvit for various names in Ukraine. It is noted that the neologism zoretsvit has not yet been the subject of description in Ukrainian linguistics, with the exception of the article by Y.F. Pradid “Neologism zoretsvit: history and modern use”. But the various names of “Zoretsvit”, common in the territory of Ukraine, haven’t been investigated. The article draws attention to the fact that the neologism zoretsvit was first used by Yuriy Klen in the 1930s of the 20th century. In 1980, the “Melody” company reproduced the record “Krynytsia moya zhiva” (“My well is living”), on which the song written by Mykhailo Tkach “Storks are flying to the zoretsvit” was recorded. In 1986, a six-volume edition of William Shakespeare’s works was published, which included the sonnets translated by Dmytro Pavlychko, where the neologism zoretsvit is used in 21st sonnet. It is assumed that Mykhailo Tkach and Dmytro Pavlychko created the word zoretsvit by analogy with the word zorepad, which was widely used at the time, since the works of Yuri Klen were banned for political reasons, and therefore it is unlikely that the named authors were familiar with them. The conducted analysis gave reasons to claim that the name “Zoretsvit” became widespread only in the 20s (especially in the second half) of the XXI century throughout the territory of Ukraine, but most often this name (three or more names) is common in such regions as Vinnytsia, Volyn, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Luhansk, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Rivne, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson and Cherkasy. Two names each of “Zoretsvit” were recorded in Kyiv and other regions: Dnepropetrovsk, Odesa, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv. In Crimea, Zakarpathia and Kirovohrad regions this name was recorded only once. The factual material shows that the name “Zoretsvit” most often get vocal, choral, dance and other creative groups, less often – sanatoriums, boarding houses, educational complexes, charitable funds, agricultural campaigns, objects of the plant world, etc.