Заметки об истории русского слова печаль
Note about history of Russian word grief

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to history of formation and functioning of Russian word grief. Historical dictionaries and Old Russian texts XI - XVII centuries (hagiography) are sources of a material. The lexical units ‘state of mind’ were polysemantic in old Russian (3 - 12 meanings). As a result of the long use of polysemantic words in old Russian texts there is a lexico-semantic group ‘state of mind’’ and modern direct sense of the word grief.

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