TY - JOUR N2 - The article is devoted to the study of the national worldview’s peculiarities on the material of names of airspace, celestial bodies and natural elements. The quantitative analysis of common and different meanings of the analyzed lexical units in Ukrainian, German, English and French relating to the person’s characteristics in society is carried out. The greatest number of connotative meanings that characterize the behavior, features of character, appearance and a certain state of a person, show the lexemes water and fire. The lower item takes the use of the lexeme moon, and the lexemes sky and sun are in the last positions. Among the common and different meanings the common meanings prevail quantitatively. In the different meanings with national peculiarity the most belong to French. The use of each of the analyzed names in figurative meanings reveals the meanings with a positive and negative connotation, the meanings with negative connotation prevail. The obtained results are indicative of the importance of the analyzed names for different peoples. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/120277/2021-01-LINS-14-Drobakha.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/120277 PY - 2021 EP - 321 DO - 10.24425/linsi.2021.137242 KW - semantics KW - figurative meaning KW - positive connotation KW - negative connotation KW - the language picture of the world A1 - Drobakha, Larysa PB - Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach VL - vol. 42 DA - 2021.07.12 T1 - National-Kulturelle Besonderheiten der Welt-anschauung im Sprachlichen Weltbild T1 - The National Cultural Worldview’s Peculiarities in the Language Picture of the World SP - 307 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/120277 T2 - LINGUISTICA SILESIANA ER -