East Slavic Раба: A Case of Mythologizing Of Social Terminological Semantics

Abstract

It is generally believed that the etymological analysis is completed when the formal (phonetic, derivational and morphological) and conceptual (semantic and ideological) sides of the investigated object are explained. The object of the study is any cluster of the cognates the genetic identity of which is proved etymologically. Lexical semantics often proves to be rather a complicated object of the linguistic studies due to the inconsistency of sets of components, forming the meaning: a part of them just does not fit into the general meaning scheme, which makes one assume a coincidence of homonymous forms in one word. The situation becomes clear, when regularities, which generated these «atypical» sememes, are figured out and substantiated typologically. Searching in this direction is always relevant.