REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT "COURAGE" OF THE CORE LEXEME "DER MUT" IN THE MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN AND NEW HIGH GERMAN LANGUAGES
The article explores a signification list of German lexeme «der Mut» in the diachronic aspect. On the basis of etymological dictionary of German language is found out a list of primary meanings of this lexeme. This list helps to determine semantics of this lexeme's meanings in medieval texts. Further in the article is presented the analysis of meanings of this lexeme with examples from medieval artistic texts in Middle High German language. Herewith are the additional stylistic meanings, which are not specified in any German etymological dictionary. In the article there is an analogous analysis of the modern meanings for this lexeme with examples of German artistic texts of the XXth century. Based on this data is the evolution dynamics of «der Mut» lexeme's determined meanings explored.