SEMANTICS OF THE ADJECTIVE <i>GREEN</i> IN RUSSIAN DIALECTS
The origin of the adjective green is associated with the Indo-European stem *ghel, the color definition of which is syncretic. This fact is confirmed by the material of Russian sub-dialects, where adjectives blue , green and yellow , when designating color, can interchange each other. The color range, which implements the green lexeme in modern dialects, is much broader than in the literary language; the syncretism of color expression is found in the dialect. The range of differences between the meanings of the dialect and the literary word green is quite large: in dialects there are much more meanings. Many of the meanings of the literary language in the dialect are stylistically marked. The lexeme is characterized by a different set of paradigmatic oppositions compared to the literary language.