Inner form of dialect nominations of the wood-spirit as the source of his semantic portrait

The article deals with the systematization of the dialect nominations of the wood-spirit in different regions of Russia. There is analyzed the inner form of these words. There were identified three lexical and semantic groups motivated by the following meaning: 1) ‘evil spirit’, 2) ‘specific act for the wood-spirit’, 3) ‘assessment’. There were found unconventional national concepts of the wood-spirit. The semes, revealed in the result of the analysis of the word’s etymon, compose the semantic portrait of the wood-spirit.