Names of Russian and Bulgarian Orthodox Holy Days: Classification Criteria
The paper gives an outline of principles and criteria applied in classification of words for holy days (heortonyms) in Russian and Bulgarian. Particular attention is devoted to the description of colloquial Russian and Bulgarian heortonyms. They constitute a heterogeneous group and are described partly as completely new lexical items and partly as lexical and derivational modifications represented by shortened (reduced) forms. A list of features necessary to identify a heortonymic formula is provided as well.