Abstract
The article is devoted to the detailed analysis of the Ukrainian thanatological phraseological units with words-components to denote concepts which go along the man while dying and being buried, determining the specificity of their motivation, establishing the phraseocreating activity of the components which denote concepts and realities of the sacral sphere of man’s life. During the research work there have been defined the peculiarities of national and cultural features of death perception through the prism of Ukrainian phraseological units with the names of the concepts which follow the man at the moment of the transferring to another world. On the whole the analysed group of phraseological units reflects different shadows of thanatological semantics. While the research it was found out that the main words-components are могила, лава, домовина, прах, яма, віконниці, ставні, гріб, дошка, труна, ладан, хрест, кладовище, ворота, свічка (ладанка). They are the direct signals of the funeral realities. The most active components are могила, яма, домовина, труна, гріб, лава, which are the direct indicators of seme “death” and take part in the formation of the integral phraseological meaning. Key words: phraseological unit (PhU), thanatological semantics, internal form, concept.
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