THE ORIGIN OF AFFIXES

Abstract

The objective of this article is to investigate the etymology of English affixes.

Methods. The main scientific results are obtained using a complex of general scientific and  special research methods, namely: analysis and synthesis of scientific literature on the problems of  etymology, word formation, affixation; theoretical generalization and concretization; comparative  method and methods linguistic research (contrastive and structural).

Results. Etymological analysis plays a significant role in comparative linguistics as it  determines the origin of words, records the history of changes in their structure, and explains their  modern form

In the course of the study one of the main ways of word formation in English, namely affixation  was analysed.