Феминитивы-русизмы в истории украинского языка

Abstract

The article reveals the history of feminitives of Russian origin in the Ukrainian language. Ukrainian-Russian linguistic and extralinguistic communication of preliterate and written epo have been analyzed. It is emphasized that the specific Russian feminitives were not fixed in the Ukrainian language in preliterate and early literate periods. Therefore it’s history should be analyzed only since the old Ukrainian era, especially during the new and modern Ukrainian periods. The attention is focused on that fact that the main stream of Russism feminitives in the Ukrainian language was fixed in the 20 th century. Modern Ukrainian language tries to deal with it in the 21st century to show it’s own lexical abundance and it’s identity.