Reflexes of passion in word formation of the Russian language (based on lexicographical discourse)

Introduction.  The  concepts  of  passion  and dispassion have been in the focus of research interest since Antiquity and remain “key concepts” of religious discourse to this day.

Materials and Methods. The study material was the texts of lexicographical discourse: explanatory, etymological and terminological dictionaries of the Russian language, dictionaries of Old Church Slavonic and Church Slavonic, ancient Greek- Russian and orthoepic dictionaries of the Russian language.

Analysis. Most of the list of Slavic-Russian compound words formed  with  the  participation  of  passion  and  its  species hypostases (love, fear, hatred) are occupied by words with the root lyub, followed by words with the root strast, here hatred and fear are verbalized several times. Of all the numerous types of love, three participate in the function of the active word-formation component: philia (φιλία), mania (μανία) and eros (ἔρως), and among the negative word-formation components of passion, the affixoid -fobia(ia)  dominates.

Results.  It is established that vocabulary units formed with the help of formants with the semantics of passion are easily arranged in a semantic paradigm that includes synonyms, antonyms and homonyms. Synonymous series are formed here both due to the variability of active word- formation components and due to the variability of the motivating component. Antonymic relations in the paradigm of lexical units formed with the help of the formant of passion are quite rarely built on the basis of the antonymy of the motivating component; most often, these relations are created on the basis of the opposition of the active word-forming component according to a gradual or contrasting feature. The subject of passion in word formation is, as a rule, a person, however, sometimes the protagonists of passion are plants, the organism as a whole or its individual organs, and here we are talking about metaphorization – likening the subjects of passion to creatures with a highly organized psyche.

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