Enantiosemic phenomena in the naming process of ‘health’ units in dialect speech Cover Image

Энантиосемические явления в процессе формирования номинаций здоровья в диалектной речи
Enantiosemic phenomena in the naming process of ‘health’ units in dialect speech

Author(s): Alla Kozhinowa
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: word history; etymology; enantiosemy; Russian dialects; Slavic dialects

Summary/Abstract: The article presents selected examples of enantiosemy which take place in the process of developing names denoting health in Russian dialects compared with Common Slavic units. Primarily, the history of the Russian kreiat’ and derived words with the same root are studied, alongside some other words with the same meaning. It is stated that auto-antonymous meanings can be detected through the existence of a lexeme originating from the primary motivation to a later attestation. The complexity of the historical development of a name often results in a discrepancy between its proposed etymologies.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 333-343
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian