A VOCABULARY FOR MARKING GOD'S PEOPLE, SAINTS AND ANGELS IN THE UKRAINIAN HISTORICAL DICTIONARY EDITED BY YEVHEN TYMCHENKO

In the article, based on the material of the multi-genre Ukrainian monuments of the writing of different styles of the 14–18 centuries, included in the database of the sources “Mapping of the Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language”, edited by Ye. Tymchenko was studied religious vocabulary in the diachronic aspect, in particular, the lexical-semantic group of words and derivatives from the formations expressing the concept of "God's people, saints, angels". The illustrative material of the dictionary represents various thematic groups of religious vocabulary: the names of performers and members of the liturgy; the names of liturgical objects, their varieties, and parts; the names of liturgies; the names of ceremonies; Christian rites, their varieties and parts; the names of the temple and its parts, etc. The studied vocabulary is captured by almost all genres of the Ukrainian language of the ХІV–ХVІІІ centuries, in particular, acts, judicial documents, wills, charters, сhronicles, works of confessional, polemic and fiction literature, liturgical literature, epistolary legacy, etc.The article focuses on the etymological analysis of religious names, which mainly consisted of determining their semantic etymon. It is established that genetically the words of the studied lexical-semantic group are not homogeneous, because it consists of lexemes of different origins, in particular borrowings from the Greek, Church Slavonic, Polish language, etc. Some Church Slavonic names emerged as semantic tracings to Greek words.It has been discovered that some of the lexemes under study often serve as the core components of various binomial or threefold stable and lexicalized word combinations.Polysemy, synonymy, and antonymy are typical for certain words indicating God's personality, saints, and angels.It has been established that mostly all the words considered have been preserved until today in the Ukrainian literary language and church-liturgical practice.Keywordshistorical dictionary, the monuments of writing, semantics, phrase, Church Slavonic language