American and British English- Polish- Russian semantic

The article is devoted to investigating British English, American English, Polish and Russian automotive specialized lexicon. There are three main tasks to be accomplished: conducting componentional analysis, comparing British and American versions, identifying automotive borrowings in Polish and Russian. The first one allowed to determine paradigmatic relations, designate thematic groups and systematize the microsystem. The second analysis revealed discrepancies between British and American sets, including different or partially different lexemes nominating the same real objects, as well as examples of compounds with various spelling rules being applied to. Finally, we have identified numerous automotive borrowings from English into Polish and Russian, which confirms the leading role of British and American English as source languages for Polish and Russian automotive lexicons.