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Slovnyk pryrodnychoi terminolohii (proiekt) [i.e. Dictionary of Natural Science Terminology (Preliminary Draft)]

POLONSKYI, Kh., comp.; Pavlo TUTKOVSKYI and Ahatanhel KRYMSKYI, eds.

Item #2904

Kharkiv: Trest “Kyiv-Druk” for Derzhavne vydavnytstvo Ukrainy, 1928. VIII, 262, [2], [2] pp. errata. 25.5×17 cm [10×6 3/4 in.]. Contemporary quarter cloth, with original printed wrappers mounted to boards. Rubbing, spotting, and wear to binding, with ca. 1 cm loss of covering paper along lower edge; some foxing and yellowing. Numerous contemporary ink annotations and corrections, several corresponding to the printed errata. Internally sound. One of 3,000 copies. In Ukrainian and Russian, with occasional German and Latin terms.

Published as vol. XI of Materiialy do Ukrainskoi terminolohii ta nomenklatury, issued by the Institute of Ukrainian Scientific Language of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The volume belongs to
the most productive period in the systematic creation of Ukrainian scientific terminology, when the Institute compiled dozens of specialized dictionaries in the natural, technical, medical, and social sciences.
The dictionary was prepared by geologist Kh. Polonskyi under the editorship of Pavlo Tutkovskyi and Ahatanhel Krymskyi (1871–1942). Krymskyi, orientalist, linguist, and one of the principal founders of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, served as one of the central figures in the codification of modern Ukrainian scholarly language. He was later arrested during the Stalinist repressions and died in custody.
Presented explicitly as a preliminary draft, the dictionary was intended for scholarly discussion rather than as a final normative vocabulary. An alphabetically arranged Russian-Ukrainian terminology section is followed by German and Latin equivalents. Of particular interest is the deliberate effort to create native Ukrainian scientific terms rather than rely automatically on Russian or international calques.

The contemporary annotations in this copy are especially relevant to its provisional character: a previous reader has entered numerous corrections and morphological observations, often following the printed errata, suggesting active use by someone familiar with the terminology.
The book represents the high point of the 1920s Ukrainian terminological movement. Much of this work was later interrupted by the reversal of Ukrainization, institutional closures, repression of scholars, and the increasing Russification of scientific language; many terms proposed in such dictionaries subsequently disappeared from normal usage.
Rare. OCLC records only a microfilm at the University of Alberta; KVK locates a copy at the National Library of the Czech Republic, with another copy held by the Russian State Public Library.

Worldcat doesn’t show any copies in the US.

Status: On Hold