Similarities and Differences Between Toponyms Formed with Colour Terms in English And Uzbek

Abstract

The present article provides a comparative linguocultural and structural-semantic analysis of English and Uzbek toponyms formed with colour terms. Geographical names constitute an important part of the lexical system of a language because they preserve information about the natural environment, settlement history, ethnic contacts, traditional worldview and cultural memory of a speech community. Colour-based toponyms are particularly significant because colour components may denote not only the visual appearance of a geographical object but also its size, location, physical characteristics, symbolic value or social importance. The study examines English toponyms containing the elements black, white, red, green, blue and yellow and Uzbek geographical names formed with qora, oq, qizil, ko‘k and sariq. The research applies descriptive, componential, etymological, comparative and linguocultural methods. The findings demonstrate that both languages employ colour terms as productive modifiers in compound geographical names and use them to describe soil, water, vegetation, relief and settlement characteristics. However,