Substances of religious semantics in ia, -ie in Russian the second half of the XVIII - the first quarter of the XIX centuries (on the material of civil printing dictionaries)

The article is devoted to the study of the problem of reflecting non-specific and specific names of religious semantics in the Russian language picture of the world of the second half of the 18^th - first quarter of the 19^th centuries on the example of one of the main layers of the vocabulary of the Russian language – substances on -ia, -ie, marked as heading lexemes in the works of Russian lexicography of the civil press. During the study, methods of linguotextological, component, historical-etymological, morphemic and word-forming analysis, as well as a statistical method were used. In the work, the nouns of religious semantics on -ia, -ie are analyzed in word-forming, lexical-grammatical, semantic and historical-etymological aspects. The analysis revealed the ability of the analyzed substances on -ia, -ie to be related in word formation to different types of foundations, as well as the productivity and ambiguity of the -ijsuffix for this word production. This formant, as the study showed, could participate in the formation of substances of religious semantics of different lexico-grammatical categories that have a complex thematic organization. Most of these derivatives in the civil dialect of the second half of the 18^th - first quarter of the 19t^h centuries. belonged to monosemantic two-root lexemes with Greek equivalents and formed from nominal and verbal stems. As in Old Russian and modern Russian, the bulk of the analyzed substances belong to abstract vocabulary, while the most developed system of names and a large semantic variety are characterized by derivatives with the meaning of action. It has been established that the nouns of religious semantics on -ia, -ie in their entirety form one of the significant layers of vocabulary of the Orthodox doctrine in the Russian language picture of the world in the second half of the 18^th - first quarter of the 19^th centuries.

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