The analysis of etymological meaning of the numerological phraseological units (from material of different-structure languages)
The paper deals with the problem of correlation of etymological meaning and inner form of idioms containing numerological component within motivational and comparative analysis. The research covers the study of the internal form of numerological phraseological units of four different-system languages: Russian, Kabardino-Circassian, English and French. Identification and characterization of the etymological meaning of numerical components in idioms are relevant in terms of content and further development of the semantics. The material of study includes phraseological units containing a numerical component which were extracted by the sampling method from idiom dictionaries of Russian, Kabardino-Circassian, English and French. The analysis of the factual material shows that internal form of numerological phraseological units reflects national cultural peculiarity of linguistic picture of the world.