Metamorphoses of the Russian word

The book describes in detail the history of many Russian words, explains their origin, changes in phonetic appearance and semantics associated with the action of language laws. Descriptions of these etymologies of some words with the involvement of the material of other languages ​​are given: Baltic, German and Romanesque. Special attention is paid to such a phenomenon in the semantic development of the word as enantiosemia. The manual is intended for studying in the university audience of sections in the etymology in the courses: "the lexicology of the Russian language", "introduction to linguistics"," historical grammar ", as well as special courses:" Basic principles of etymological analysis", "metaphors of public consciousness and their reflection in the word "," History of words". For students-philologists, teachers of schools and universities, graduate students, foreign students, heads of mugs and competitions in the Russian language, as well as all those interested in such a fascinating section of the Russian language as ecto