Historical changes in the vocabulary of the Russian language: a study of the lexico-semantic group "Jewelry"

The article provides an analysis of the lexemes included into group "Jewelry" of the Russian language of different time periods. The data of the Russian dictionaries is studied to observe how the content of lexico-sematic group "Jewelry" has been changing since Old Russian times till the present time. A historical classification of the lexico-semantic group is suggested. The results of a survey of native speakers of the modern Russian language are analyzed. As a result, the lexemes of passive and active vocabulary of the language are revealed.