Abstract
Hovhannes Catolikos Draskhanakertsy is an influential Armenian figure, statesman, spiritual leader and chronicler of the late IX and early X centuries. His well-known work “History of Armenia” was written in the ancient Armenian language, but it was a period of decline of the ancient literary language, in the depths of which a new Middle Armenian language was already being formed under the influence of dialects, new borrowings from the languages of the conquerors and neighboring peoples. This article reveals the rich semantics of phraseological units of the book “History of Armenia”. The vocabulary of Hovhannes Draskhanakertsy is rich in phraseological units of different semantic fields, the chronicler possessed figurative thinking, had an artistic style. The analysis shows that the largest group encountered is somatic phraseological units. In second place are phraseological units formed from words denoting thinking, knowledge and speech, in third place are military affairs and weapons. The dominance of these thematic groups is not accidental, since the IX-X centuries for Armenia were the time of wars and the national liberation struggle against the Arab conquerors, the restoration of Armenian statehood. The verb components of these phraseological units are verbs denoting physical actions and beingness.