The Faith, Hope and Charity Triad through Onomastic Nomination (with Reference to Eastern Slavonic Languages)

Abstract

The article analyzes the Вера, Надежда, Любовь (corresponding to the English Faith, Hope and Charity) proper names, and their Eastern Slavonic equivalents, viewed upon through the prism of correspondence to the appellative homonyms, designating the key Christian virtues. The triad is actively employed in nominations of different material (religious and nonreligious) and nonmaterial objects (public institutions and events), which is proved by Internet data.

Keywords

• Slavonic languages
• Russian language
• axiological linguistics
• etymology
• semantics
• syntactics
• anthroponymy
• proper name
• chrematonymy