Suffixal word formation of nouns in the Hungarian and Erzya languages (historical-comparative analysis)

Introduction: study of word formation system of a language is one of the ways to explore the processes of its development and to uncover the properties of word formation mechanism and its capabilities. Modern Finno-Ugric languages are characterized by a wealth of suffixal word formation, which is explained by the preservation of simple word-formative suffixes of ancient origin, as well as the emergence of suffixes of secondary origin. Objective: to reveal the features of the suffix formation of nouns in the Hungarian and Erzya languages; to identify the most productive suffixes in terms of their prevalence, productivity, origin; to describe them. Research materials: bilingual dictionaries: Erzya-Russian (edited by B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin) and Hungarian-Russian by L. Galdi and P. Uzonyi. Results and novelty of the research: in the Hungarian, suffixation is the main morphological way of formation of nouns, which is usually found in its pure form, i.e. without combining with other ways. There are many productive suffixes of different origins, which may interact to form combinations in the process of derivation. The most commonly used morphemes are-sag /-seg;-at /-et;-as /-es. The Erzya language also has a significant number of derivational suffixes of nouns, but this way of derivation is used less frequently in comparison with the Hungarian. The most common and productive suffixes have been revealed in the Erzya language: -M alpha/ -MO/ -Me; -kc; -kw; -He/-H(sic). The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that this study is one of the few that is aimed at a comprehensive description of the derivational suffixes of the Hungarian and Erzya languages in order to establish similarities and differences in the processes of word formation of nouns.