Kazakh Astyonyms on the Great Silk Road

Abstract

The linguistic study of the Great Silk Road in an interdisciplinary aspect is an important study for a complete understanding of the cumulative function of language. This enriches the Kazakh linguoculturology. For this purpose, the Kazakh cities of the Great Silk Road were studied. Their meaning is determined by etymology. There were a lot of cities along the Silk Road. It is impossible to cover all of them in the scope of the article. Therefore, cities located in Kazakhstan became the object of the study. The main goal for onomastics is the study of obscured words, in order to achieve this goal, the names of cities found by archaeological excavations are involved in the analysis. In order for the course of the study to be logically collected, we limited ourselves to astyonyms based on hydrographic terms. The place of the cities Sairam, Syganak, Suyab, Sharap, Ekioguz in the Great Silk Road was established; typical patterns of city names are determined, a new etymological interpretation of astyonyms is given