%0 Journal Article
%T Lingual and Cultural Features of the Semantics of Metrological Phraseological Units with the Component&#8212;Common Name <i>Measure</i>, <i>Messen</i>,<i> Miara</i>, <i>M</i><i>&#1110;</i><i>&#1088;&#1072;</i> on the Example of English, German, Polish and Ukrainian Languages
%A Inna Kovalchuk
%A Oksana Kostiuk
%A Halyna Kraichynska
%A Lesia Kotsiuk
%A Vadym Bobkov
%J Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
%P 948-965
%@ 2164-2834
%D 2024
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojml.2024.145049
%X The article is devoted to the description of systems of measure and measurements of English, German, Polish and Ukrainian languages. It goes about the history of measures, the origin and formation of units of measurement. It studies the synonymous and variant-synonymous relations that were presented in the nations of the studied languages. The article deals with the linguoculturo-logical semantic features of the phraseology with metrological components in English, German, Polish and Ukrainian. For the first time, phraseology with such a type of components in the four languages has been studied for distinguishing their linguistic, national and cultural peculiarities, and their semantic characteristics have been given. Phraseology with components&#8212;general names <i>Eng</i>. <i>measure</i>,<i> Ger</i>. <i>Messe</i><i>n</i><i>/</i><i>Ma&#223;</i><i>, Pol</i>. <i>miara</i><i>/</i><i>miarka</i>, <i>Ukr</i>. <i>&#1084;&#1110;&#1088;&#1072;</i><i>/</i><i>&#1084;&#1110;</i><i>&#1088;&#1082;&#1072;</i> and with descriptive names of measurement units, which denote approximate distance, length, water depth and thickness of the object, has been researched.
%K PU (Phraseological Unit)
%K Metonym
%K Units of Measurement
%K Linear Measurement
%K Measures of Volumes and Capacities
%K Measures of Weight
%K Measures of Surface
%K Metrological PU
%K Etymology
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=136543