TO THE ISSUE OF CONNECTION OF SOME SLAVIC NAMES OF MONTHS WITH CALENDAR HOLIDAYS
Natural languages are able to reflect different ways of perceiving the reality and its organization, that means, a picture of the world, which is manifested at different levels of language. Being an element of the lexical system, the names of the months reflect the features of time perception. Their study allows us to identify the specifics of the worldview of the people. This article is devoted to comparative study of modern Slavic names of the months associated with beliefs and customs. The relevance of our work is associated with the increased interest in comparing related languages, identifying common and different examples of a separate fragment of the lexical system. The modern Slavic names of the months associated with beliefs and customs were taken as an object of study. The subject is the semantic and structural features of the identified items. The object and subject determine the purpose of our study. The purpose is to identify the common and different in the semantics and structure of the names of the months associated with beliefs and customs, as exemplified in Slavic languages.The study of language material was carried out using descriptive and comparative methods. The use of these methods made it possible to establish a semantic connection between the facts studied, to reveal the structural and semantic features of the names of the months, to find similarities and differences in the methods of their nomination. The result of the analysis is the identification of universal and specific in the formation mechanism of the names of the months associated with beliefs and customs, the determination of the place of the analyzed names in the Slavic calendar. Our study contributes to the development of comparative linguistics: the data obtained can be used in the teaching of modern Slavic languages in higher educational institutions.