On the issue of phraseological etymology (on the example of the phraseological unit «die Flötentöne beibringen»)

UDC 81-139 BBK 81.1

Stepanenko V. A.Dribon D. O.

The article is devoted to the etymological study of the phraseological unit jmdm die Flötentöne beibringen. Being collected by the continuous sampling method and analysed, the empiric material enabled to find out phraseological etymology sources, in addition to those, which had been registered in different German etymological dictionaries.

Key words:  etymology of a phraseological unit, Aesop’s fable «The Fisherman and his Flute», pan flute, flute allemande.

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