LINGVOCULTURAL ASPECTS OF MINERALOGICAL TERMS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

Abstract

We were sure that lexical units are associated with a foreign language layer
when we examined the names of precious stones and ores. It is well known that most
technical and scientific terminology have Greek or Latin roots. Even in analyzing
the etymology of the names of precious stones and ores, we have witnessed that most
of these terms are borrowed. In particular, the names of mineralogical units in
English lexicology are borrowed from Greek (diamond, chlorite, beryl, graphite),
Latin (muscovite, garnet, sulfur, opal), French (turquoise, biotite), German (goethite,
quartz), Arabic (talc, borax), Persian (azurite, cinnabar) and Spanish (platinum)
languages