Българските корабостроителни термини и техните еквиваленти в руския, английския, немския и френския език

This is a cross-language study of the ship-building two-root terms across Bulgarian, Russian, English, German and French aiming at establishing the degree of isomorphism in their structural meaning (i. e. the literal meaning, the sense, not the vocabulary meaning). In the formation of the Bulgarian terms foreign term-building patterns, mostly Russian, are found to predominate. The authors offer some practical suggestions as to how to modify those terms exhibiting inconsistencies between form and meaning definition.