SEMANTIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE VERBS “FEORRIAN, FYRSIAN, FEORSIAN” AND VERBS OF DIRECTION, WHICH ARE INCLUDED IN 4 CATEGORIES OF OLD ENGLISH

Аннотация

This article analyzes the semantic structure of some motion verbs in the English language, on the basis of which specific semantic events of the verbs of movement are determined. The main attention is paid to certain structures and boundaries of verbs, that is, the semantic field of verbs belonging to this group, and the semantic classification of lexemes of this group of verbs to identify their common, unifying, differentiating semantics. From this article we can see what the meanings of the verbs used in Old English to this day had, and by attaching grammatical forms to these verbs, some verbs acquired additional meanings. Verbs used during the period of Old English have been studied in different directions and the scope of their meaning has been analyzed. In some cases it had different meanings in different contexts.