Russian linguistic personality

Kazakh linguistic personality

1. Motherland:

fatherland, Moscow, first-throned, Kiev Rus, white stoned, motherland

・ I wish to live and die in Paris if there is no such earth as in Moscow.

・ For the motherland (a war-call).

1. Atameken:

earth of fathers (ancestors), Holy Land, patrimonial cemeteries

・ It is better to be a slave in the motherland than a sultan on foreign soil. (a man’s home is his castle).

・ Aruakh (spirits of ancestors―a war-call).

2. Etnonim

Russian: Great Russian.

2. Etnonim

Kazakh: free, swan (beauty and grace)―be a Kazakh (strong, courageous―expression-wish at the Georgians).

3. Government power (form of government).

Tsar-father, emperor, the father of ours

(wisdom, justice, fatherlike care).

3. Government power (form of government).

Horde, khan, sultan, Biy (intellect, wisdom, oratory, justice, honesty).

4. Spiritual feature (character).

Brave, courageous, strong, frank, hospitable, careless.

・ Bread and salt are the main things for a Russian man.

・ A Russian man is a kind man.

・ A Russian man likes to do everything at random.

4. Spiritual feature (character).

Brave, freedom-loving, generous, frank, faithful, hospitable, conceited, respecting elderly people.

・ If a Kazakh is your friend, then you won’t get lost (Uzbek proverb);

・ Ер жігіттің екі айтқаны-өлгенмен тен (For Dzhigit, it’s better to die than to promise twice);

・ Құтты қонаққа-тәтті тамақ (an honorable feast for the guest of honor); Сыйлап берсе-суын іш (Water is also food if given with heart and soul);

・ aksakal (a respected elder)

・ жарыктык―respectful attitude toward elders;

・ кыз жибек (a young girl)―respectful attitude for women.

5. Material culture:

1) izba (log hut) (tree);

2) sarafan (sundress) (flax);

3) cuisine (bread, pancakes, pies, porridge)―simplicity.

5. Material culture:

1) yurta (wool);

2) chapan (velvet);

3) cuisine (meat: kazy, zhaya, zhal; milk products: koumiss, ayran, shubat)―caloric content, simplicity, healing properties.