Dialectal words with expressive meaning characterizing peasants’ attitude to labour and economy in Arkhangelsk oblast

The article reflects a group of northern Russian dialects characterizing peasants’ attitude to labour and economy. An axiological assessment of dialect speakers describes the attitude of the northern people to work. The article considers such thematic groups of words as ‘Characteristics of a person in his relation to property’, ‘Characteristics of a dishonest person’. Within these groups the following lexical and semantic groups are distinguished: ‘a greedy person, a miser’, ‘a windy, dissolute, careless person’, ‘a two-faced, hypocritical, sneaky dodger, sharker, rogue’. Using dialect dictionaries, we have identified the inventory and semantics of words, and described the peculiarities of the world view of northern dialect speakers though the definitions. The axiological characteristics allows identifying a person’s ability to work. We have recorded many pejorative lexemes: naming units for lazy, mismanaged, careless and irresponsible people who do not think about their living and welfare