Background. The article substantiates the etymology of some phrases of Slavic languages associated with German ethnoculture. Compared to lexical etymology, which has reached the Indo-European level of reconstruction, the phraseology of Slavic languages is at the stage of etymologizing individual figurative units. There is a lack of monolingual etymological dictionaries of Slavic phraseology, which could in the future become the basis for multilingual dictionaries. Hence the relevance of our study, which aims to deepen the etymologies of phraseological Germanisms that have been assimilated by Slavic languages to varying degrees. Methods. Descriptive, etymological, and ethnolinguistic methods of analysis are used. Results. On the basis of explanatory and etymological lexicographical sources of the German language, the phraseological germanisms jemandem einen Korb geben, der blaue Montag in the East Slavic, West Slavic and South Slavic groups of Slavic languages, namely Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian, Czech, Croatian and Slovenian, are studied. Phraseological receptions in Slavic languages are confirmed by ethnocultural data. The German phrase ein Korb geben / ein Korb bekommen has been identified as a genetic source of phraseological calquing in the Slavic languages of the West Slavic and South Slavic groups. For the East Slavic language group, the semantics of the analyzed phrases дати/ дістати гарбуза "give/get the pumpkins" reveals typological rather than genetic kinship. At the same time, we qualify the borrowing of the Ukrainian phrase daty vidkosha to denote any refusal as a Germanic calque through the mediation of Czech and Polish. It is noted that the interpretation of the Czech phrase modré pondělí proposed in the new Academic Dictionary of Modern Czech, in our opinion, cannot have two different meanings, since the expression is originally associated with a specific chronological date. Сonclusions. The study of the genesis of phraseological units of Slavic languages is an urgent and promising task for linguists. The creation of etymological phraseological dictionaries of national languages will help to emphasize the national and universal features of the Slavic worldview in the projection on their history and culture.
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