LANGUAGE PORTRAIT OF THE KHERSON REGION THROUGH THE PRISM OF ONYMY UNITS

Abstract

The article analyses the most significant works of researchers in the field of toponymy. The publication is devoted to the study of the native land through oikonymic units, commenting on the following proper names: Kherson, Hola Prystan, Kakhovka, Oleshky, Skadovsk (astionyms); Chongar, Voskresenka, Novotroitsk (comonyms); the names of the Black and Azov Seas (pelagonyms); the Dnieper River (potamonyms); Biryuchiy Island (insulonym). Special attention is paid to my native village, Voskresenka, where the names of streets (godonyms) and adjacent toponyms have been identified and systematised.