Phraseological units, proverbs and sayings with a phytonym component in the English, German and Russian languages

Abstract

This article deals with the analysis of English, German and Russian phraseological units, proverbs and sayings with a phytonym component. The subject of special attention is the study of cultural connotation of phraseological units, proverbs and sayings and the associative relations of phytonyms in the analyzed languages. The linguocultural analysis result has shown that some phytonym components have almost the same cultural connotation in English, German and Russian phraseological units, proverbs and sayings but still, there are some differences in connotation of the same phytonym components in these languages. Besides, some phytonyms demonstrate unusual cultural connotations typical to each of the three languages under study.