WORDS WITH THE ROOT -СВЯЩ- IN I. SREZNEVSKY'S DICTIONARY IN THE CONTEXT OF RUSSIAN HISTORICAL SEMANTICS AND LEXICOLOGY
The words with the root variant -свящ- included in the etymological word family of the Proto-Slavic root * svęt- present 30% of lexical units that have still been active in modern Russian. Being the original historical dictionary of the Russian language the dictionary of I.I. Sreznevsky contains ancient words. After comparing and contrasting them with the modern words, one can draw the conclusions about the semantic development both of single words and of words belonging to the word family. The article deals with the ancient and modern lexicographic semantics of 4 words out of 15 modern lexical units from the word family under consideration. 2 words retain the ancient meanings unchanged, 1 word is terminological, 1 word widens its meanings in the course of time, and 1 derivational verb is of later origin.