THE CONCEPT OF BEAUTY EXPRESSED IN THE WORDS OF THE ETYMOLOGICAL GROUP OF THE INDO-EUROPEAN ROOT *LEIP

Abstract

The cognitive approach to the study of the semantic development of words provides a more capacious description of their meanings especially the figurative ones expressed as a rule in the form of metaphors. In the article the author describes the significance of the conceptual metaphor as a tool for investigating the semantics of words with the meaning of beauty belonging to the etymological group of the Indo-European root *leip. We have shown a model of the causal relationship between the meaning of words and conceptual thinking. Purpose. The article is devoted to the current direction in linguistics, i.e. cognitive semantics. The author uses the conceptual metaphor to reveal the semantic relationship of the words belonging to the etymological group of the Indo-European root *leip. Methodology. The basis of the research is the analytic and hermeneutic methods. Results. The author proves the causal relationship between the meaning of words and conceptual thinking. Practical implications. The results of the work can be used for etymological dictionaries compilation.

Keywords

• концептуальная метафора
• когнитивная семантика
• этимологическое гнездо