I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

Russicisms, internationalisms, national language, borrowings, bilingualism, role of the Russian language, enrichment of vocabulary

The lexical composition of the Chuvash language being in daily interaction with the Russian language is constantly enriched with new words. In the conditions of scientific and technological progress and the emergence of new concepts and phenomena, the Chuvash language borrows new terms unlimitedly. Purists of the Chuvash language are against any borrowings from the Russian language and speak out for the use of native words, and in the absence of such, they replace Russicisms by word combinations and sometimes by phrases, resorting to the method of description of a new concept or phenomenon. Everyone knows that Russicisms (most of them being internationalisms) meet the requirements of brevity in defining new concepts and phenomena. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of a-anlaut Russicisms taken by the method of continuous sampling from the Russian-Chuvash dictionary edited by I. A. Andreeva and N. P. Petrov and the analysis of their origin made it possible to determine the quantitative origin composition of a-anlaut Russicisms and thereby answer the question of the inevitability of entering Russicisms into the Chuvash language for the benefit of the development of the vocabulary of the Chuvash language. Russicisms are adapted to the rules of the Chuvash language and are the source of the formation of new words. The degree of adaptation of Russian borrowings can be seen when new words are formed from the existing ones by using native suffixes or word composition.

Николаева Наталия Николаевна – аспирант кафедры русского языка и литературы Чувашского государственного университета имени И. Н. Ульянова, г. Чебоксары, Россия, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0118-9100, natann7@gmail.com