Три штрихи до мовного портрета ієромонаха-студита Даниїла (Тимчини)

The prose and poetic works of hieromonk Danyil (Tymchynа) refl ect the author’s linguistic worldview and help create his linguistic portrait. This portrait is shaped by three features: 1) a dialectal basis; 2) ecclesiastical-religious vocabulary; 3) Ukrainian literary lexicon. The dialectal basis of Tymchyna’s works is the most characteristic trait of the author, who originated from Sian Region. Sian dialect features are organically represented in the speech of the people in Galicia. Therefore, the works of hieromonk Danyil Tymchyna serve as a characterization of the speech of an average Galician in the fi rst half of the 20th century. Danyil Tymchyna was a person of the Church, and therefore, the language of his works is mainly composed of Church Slavonic words (a tradition among Ukrainian church fi gures) and contemporary Ukrainian theological and church-religious vocabulary. During the years of the Soviet totalitarian system, Tymchyna’s heritage gains special signifi cance in connection with the development of the language of the Ukrainian Church. The third characteristic feature is the abundant use of Ukrainian vocabulary that was excluded from the literary standard during the Soviet system, labelled as archaic, or classifi ed as russianism