Somat nenä ‘nose’ in Karelian phraseological units

Introduction. The article presents the results of the analysis of phraseological units containing a component nenä ‘nose’. It proposes the classifi cation of identifi ed phraseological units in accordance with their semantic features.
Materials and Methods. The research is based on the materials of phraseological and dialect dictionaries of the Karelian language. The principles of the comparative method are applied in the work.
Results and Discussion. In this study, the author pays attention to one of the little-studied groups of phraseological units, namely somatic vocabulary. It considers the semantics of phraseological units containing sensonymic name nenä ‘nose’. In the Karelian language, the lexeme nenä is polysemantic, but in the context of idioms, it occurs exclusively in the meaning ‘nose’. When determining the substantive aspect of the collected linguistic material, it was possible to identify 21 thematic groups, including 63 phraseological units.
Conclusion. The article presents, for the fi rst time, a classifi cation of phraseological units extracted through a systematic sampling method from phraseological and dialect dictionaries of the Karelian language. The researcher focused on fi xed combinations containing semantically related lexemes, specifi cally phraseological units with the somatic component nenä. The diversity identifi ed indicates vivid imagery, simplicity in grammatical and stylistic presentation, folk origin, and the relevance of the content of Karelian phraseological units.