словообразовательная метафора

The article deals with the issues of describing the lexical meaning of word-formation metaphors in thesauruses. Various means of defining derivatives with metaphoric motivation are regarded. The reasons of why it is impossible to describe the lexical meaning of some groups of derivatives by means of linking them to the generative word are established.

The article considers one of the ways of forming the word-formative metaphor in the history of the Russian language - the loss of the primary meaning of the derived word. On the basis of an analysis of extensive material, the causes of the disappearance of primary values are established, among which archaization and changing the meaning of the morpheme are the most important.