To comprehend the inner form of the word

The article deals with the concept of the internal form of a word. The idea to consider the internal form of the word as synthetic in nature belongs to the Russian philosopher-hermeneutist G. G. Shpet. For him, a student of Husserl, the inner form connects the world of ideas and consciousness, subjective and objective, and is, in fact, a way of penetrating the problem of spirituality. The author of this article makes an attempt to understand the inner form of the word candle on a specific literary material.