NOUNS OF RELIGION SEMANTIC ON -NITSA IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE OF THE XVIII CENTURY (BASED ON LEXICOGRAPHIC WORKS OF CIVIL MEDIA)

Abstract

The study deals with the problems of the history of the formation of the religious style of the Russian language. The article carried out a comprehensive linguistic analysis of the substances of religious semantics into -nitsa, registered in civil media dictionaries of the XVIII century. It was established that the nouns of religious semantics into -nitsa form a special layer of specific vocabulary with personal and non-personal meanings in the dictionary system of the religious style of the Russian language of the XVIII century. It is shown that the substances of religious semantics on the -nitsa are characterized by a system of complex word-forming relations and for the most part are monosemantic specific names that identify female persons by position, performed by professional functions or by action.

Keywords

• religious style
• russian lexicography
• noun names of religious semantics
• suffix nits-
• suffix -itz-
• orthodoxy
• xviii century