Borrowing of slavic lexical elements in the languages of the balkan sprachbund. Lexeme KOST

The article analyzes the process of borrowing, integrating and adapting the Slavic word кост and its derivatives in the Balkan Sprachbund. The conditions and areas of borrowing, contexts of functioning, dynamics and variability in the formal-semantic appearance of the borrowed lexical item are examined. The development of the somatism кост, established with different meanings in the host languages, is traced against the background of its synonyms, derivatives and somatic phraseology. The systematization and reflection of the collected material are subordinated to the main goal of manifesting the dialectal network of common Balkan meanings of the Slavic lexemes.