LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PLACE AND WATER NAMES OF THE ABAY DISTRICT

Abstract

The article describes the place-names of the Abay region, the factors affecting the formation of regional toponymy, the ethno linguistic character of geographical names.

Names of places and waters are a clear reflection of people's customs, way of life, history and culture.In this article, the issue of considering regional toponyms in close connection with the worldview of the nation is put forward.The continuity of the past and the present of any country is reflected through its place and water names - toponyms.The names of the places and waters of the Kazakh country reveal the centuries-old history of the people.For this reason, the study of place names has become one of the most urgent issues today due to the fact that many toponyms have been changed and forgotten in the "various" times of our country. In this regard, the fact that many toponyms in the mentioned region were created in connection with historical events and specific situations, the names of people, the animal world, the type and color of the geographical environment, and natural phenomena were analyzed and considered in detail with examples in the article.