SEMANTICS DEVELOPMENT OF THE BORROWED NOMINATION PHOENIX IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE (BASED ON DICTIONARES AND TEXTS)

The article analyzes particular qualities of the lexical semantics development of phoenix nomination borrowed from the Greek language with the direct meaning "fantastic bird" in the Russian linguistic picture of the world. The purpose of this article is to study the main change directions of the direct meaning of the phoenix nomination included in the lexico-semantic group "Fantastic Birds", and to show the specifics, including national, of semantic increments of the lexeme in the corresponding contexts of being related to the XVIII-XXI centuries. The study offers relevant componenti and contextual analysis of the seme component expressions of the considered lexeme phoenix in the Russian linguistic culture. The author provides a fundamentally new analysis of the semantic structure changes of borrowed nominations related to the lexico-semantic group "fantastic birds" in the Russian language. The article concludes that the initial meaning of phoenix nomination "mythological bird" which continues to influence the semantic structure of the direct and figurative word meanings was transformed into the meaning "fantastic bird", which gradually loses its connection with mythology in the Russian linguoculture. The author notes that the direct meaning is characterized by both the keeping of the mythological anthropocentrism manifestations and their loss. Based on the contexts of existence of lexeme phoenix which were obtained using the sampling method through the National Corpus of the Russian language, the author speciies that the development of occasional semantic components in the structure of its meaning are connected with the gender of the bird, its qualitative and functional characteristics, description of appearance and abilities in the Russian language. The research materials were obtained during the work with different types of Russian dictionaries (encyclopedic, mythological, ethnolinguistic, etymological, historical, explanatory ones, dictionaries of foreign words) and the National Corpus of the Russian language.