Primary Sources in the Name of White in Russian and Spanish. Phonosemantics and Etymology
The article is devoted to the issue of the colour names in linguistics. Achievements of the cognitive and historical colour names’ study and a new etymological and phonosemantical approach serve for the ground of the research. The advantages of the new approach are demonstrated by means of white colour names in Russian and Spanish. The research explores the semantic space of the BL-lexicon of two languages, establishes the Indo-European roots’ derivation and clarifies the universal evolutionary semantic regularities.