POLISH-LITHUANIAN HERITAGE IN TVER DIALECTS: STAGES OF SEMANTIC EVOLUTION
The article deals with the etymological history of some lexical dialecticisms with an implicit inner form in the dialects of the Tver region. An attempt is made to identify the motivational characteristics of the words, related to the Polish-Lithuanian influence, by penetrating into their inner forms, to trace their semantic connections with the single-root lexemes in other Slavic and Indo-European languages. The author analyzes the historical and semantic transformations that took place in the process of emergence of derived meanings, which resulted in the appearance of new words that concretize different features, phenomena, actions and objects in dialects.