The Role of Stem Formation and Abbreviation in the Creation of Neologisms of the thematic group "war"

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of neologisms that appeared in the Ukrainian language during the war in 2022-2023. Recently, people have been actively exchanging opinions and impressions on the Internet, where anyone can become an author. Anger at the invaders and insufficient level of education caused the appearance of negatively colored, and sometimes rude, swearing neologisms, with the help of which the people express their anger and indignation. There are significantly fewer novelties with a positive connotation, they relate to the actions of defenders of Ukraine, patriots, and volunteers. Most of the new words were formed by means of suffixation (19.5% of new creations) and stem formation (19%). This article examines composites (russofascist, bydlorus, rashostan, banderomobil, feikomet, dronopad, zradofil, rashenführer, zhabogadyuking etc.), various types of abbreviations (teroborona, terrasha, pugitler, E-mohyla (E-grave)) and their derivatives (ZSUist, fsbuk, chmonia, chmobic, rfiya).