THE HISTORICAL FATE OF THE HOMOGROUP <i>ГОЛУБЕЦЪ</i>
This article is dedicated to study of words with sound envelope and spelling голубец in Russian language during the period from XI century to modern stage of language development. It was established as a result of investigation that one of homonyms - голубецъ1 blue paintґ - originated in the Indo-European word голубь and another - голубецъ2 - 1) box for keeping sacral things (ark)ґ; 2) part of the church premises serving as a burial vaultґ; 3) underground reservoirґ originated in the word golf borrowed from Scandinavian languages. The reason of coincidence of paronyms голубецъ and голбецъ in sound and spelling was the homonymization by phonetical analogy, without taking the meanings of words into account. In the course of time both words acquired new meanings; many of them then gradually gained the state of independent lexical units.