THIS MYSTERIOUS RUSSIAN WORD MGLA

The author analyzes a Russian word MGLA, which in her opinion is very strange and does not coincide with its quasi-synonyms metel’, tucha, oblako and so on. All examples were extracted from the Russian National Corpus (RNC).

Some special subtypes of the RNC were analyzed separately.

The peak of this word use was at the end of the XIX century. MGLA may have different colour. It can approach to a human being very nearly, but never touch him. It is impossible to go behind MGLA, to see what is there behind it. In the Old Russian texts the expression zemlya mglyana signified the hell.

The author supposes that MGLA in Russian means also the curtain into another world.