Abstract
The Russian words related to material culture : an ambiguous duality «word of Slavic origin » versus «loanword of West-European origin » Beyond the simple binarity “ Slavic word”/“ West-European word”, the main Russian lexemes denoting “ industry” (промышленнoсть / индустрия) display, when viewed both in diachrony and in synchrony, a wide range of uses and semantic shades. The analysis of corresponding lexical entries in Russian texts (end of the 18th -20th centuries) reveals a trend toward semantic neutralization and, more recently (beginning of the 21th century), a kind of semantic inversion : промышленнoсть seems to become more specific in comparison with индустрия.
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