Substances of religious semantics in -ets in Russian of the XVIII – first quarter of the XIX centuries (on the material of the civil seal dictionaries)

The article is devoted to the study of the problem of reflecting personal and non-personal names of religious semantics in the Russian language picture of the world of the XVIII – first quarter of the XIX centuries on the example of one of the productive nominal word-forming types – substances in -ets, marked as title lexemes in the works of Russian lexicography. 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, nouns of religious semantics on -ets are analyzed in word-forming and semantic aspects. In addition, based on the analysis of dictionary data among the derivatives under consideration, word groups were identified in terms of the frequency of their use in the Russian language of the XVIII – early XIX centuries, as well as neoplasms. This formant, as the study showed, could participate in the formation of both personal and non-personal specific substances of religious semantics that have a complex thematic organization. This formant could participate in the formation of both personal and non-personal specific substances of religious semantics that have a complex thematic organization. At the same time, most of these derivatives in the civil dialect of the XVIII – first quarter of the XIX centuries belonged to monosemantic two-root lexemes formed from verb-nominal stems, and belonged, as in modern Russian, to agent vocabulary denoting males. It has been established that the nouns of religious semantics on -ets together form one of the significant layers of vocabulary of the Orthodox doctrine in the Russian language picture of the world of the XVIII – first quarter of the XIX centuries