The Slavic equivalents of the Russian chujat' (чуять): to the semantic evolution

The article discusses the features of Slavic semantic correspondences to the Russian verb chujat' (чуять). The analysis is conducted within the framework of compara-tive-historicai method in the material lexicographical sources. The study found that all detected in the Slavic language of the designations are the sensory perception of the world by people (most often) or animals (to a lesser extent). However, if the Eastern and Western Slavonic languages viewed verbs refer to as common perception ("to feel"), and any specific (auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile), the South Slavic token names only serve the specific auditory perception. In literary Slavic languages at the analyzed words is not fixed meaning representative of visual perception. On the basis of perceptual semantics in all Slavic languages, where there are correspondences to Russian chujat' (like the Russian verb), formed or are formed figurative meanings. They are connected with the name of a rational comprehension heartfelt earlier (in Russian, partly in the Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian); or designation of the sixth sense - intuition (in Russian and Czech, partly in Ukrainian and Belarusian); or the name of the human condition, physical or emotional (in many Slavic languages).

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