SUFFIXATION AS A WAY OF WORD FORMATION OF ENGLISH AVIATION TERMINOLOGY

Abstract

The article deals with the suffixal way of creating terms of the English aviation terminology. The main attention is paid tosuch suffixes as: -er / -or, -free, -less, -oid, -worthy. The paper reveals what types of terms each of these suffixes forms. Thesuffix -er / -or is mostly used to denote people by types of occupations and states, objects, devices by their certain function.The suffix -free proved to be productive in the case of the formation of terms to describe freedom from something. The suffix-less is mainly used to form concepts that express the deprivation of something and the impossibility of a certain action.The suffix -oid is useful for the formation of derived nouns and adjectives with the expression of similarity to somethingdenoted by the derivation word stem. The suffix -worthy is found to indicate suitability for the denoted stem of the originalterm. The paper also presents examples of terminological units formed by each of the studied suffixes, which are organisedaccording to the type of formed terms. All examples presented in the scientific work are taken from the thematic dictionaryof aviation terminology. The study also focuses on the main ways of translating such terms into the Ukrainian language.The article considers the concept of word formation in general, describes its importance for the development of a language,as well as highlights the main ways of word formation. Such ways include affixation, conversion and stem composition.In addition, the scientific work highlights the importance of suffixation as one of the effective ways of word formationto enrich the terminological vocabulary of the English aviation industry. The productivity of each of the studied suffixes isconsidered in the article. It was found that the most productive suffixes are -er/-or, and -less, suffixes -free, -oid and -worthy are found to be less productive in the aviation terminology word formation. However, according to the results of the scientificresearch, this does not mean that the latter are less important in the creation of new terms, because each of the suffixesstudied is an extremely important part of a complex process of word formation in the aviation terminological systemof the English language.