Etymological nest with root *mxr- in the Russian language

Abstract

The article defines the concepts of etymological nest and semantic evolution in the history of the Russian language. The authors consider the correlation of the terms ‘word-formation’, ‘lexical’, ‘root’ and ‘etymological nest’. They also give a complex description of some lexemes going back to the etymological nest with the root *mхr-. The method of semantic field is applied in the analysis of semantic structure of the word ‘death’ in diachronic aspect. The article presents a typology of semantic shifts in the lexemes of the nest (hyper-hyponymic, deviation, metaphorical).

Keywords

• etymological nest
• lexical nest
• word-formative nest
• semantic evolution
• synchronous-diachronic analysis
• enantiosemy