Nazarov N. The Ukrainian etymological lexicography: theory, history, and practice

The present study is aimed at metalinguistic analysis of Ukrainian and European etymological lexicography methodological basis. Its main goal is to explicate interdependencies between ideology (cultural, religious or scientific narrative) and etymologizing patterns in etymological dictionaries, to reveal reflexes of different scientific epochs in the present state of Ukrainian etymology. Before etymological dictionary as distinctive genre of linguistic research appeared, both lexicography and etymology have passed through several evolutionary stages that coincided with changing of epistemes (according to Michel Foucault), both having their origins in mythological view on the word as magical force. Especially strong ties tied Byzantine and Byzantine-oriented countries' (such as Ukraine before XIX c.) lexicography and etymology with sacral sphere. Both first Byzantine (e.g. Suda) and Ukrainian (e.g. that of P. Berynda) dictionaries bore catechetical functions as well as first etymologizing practices of these areas belonged to folklore rooted figura etymologica or 'folk etymology'. Ukrainian etymology in XIX c. combined results of comparative method with focus on the inner form of a word (elaborated by O.O. Potebnya), that was possible due to special attention to the language awareness immanent to folklore (both O.O. Potebnya and P.Ya. Lukashevych were both linguists and folklorists).