UDC 81-133 BBK 81.41

Varnavskaya E. V., Varnavsky V. S.

The article presents the results of historical and etymological analysis of words «brick» and «cement» as concepts of construction terminology. The article describes the dynamics of their formation according to synchronous cut in the process of language development. The history of the genesis and evolution of these concepts are considered in association with the general process of formation of building science.

Historical and etymological analysis of terms presented in this study was conducted based on a diachronic approach of terminology research. Attracting new text sources allowed recreating the history of the formation of these terms and linking their past with the present.

Keywords: historical terminology, construction terminology, terminology of the construction discourse, the term evolution.

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