The word formation of the terms of military and merchant vessels (the English, French and Russian languages in comparison)

this paper analyzes the word forms of court nominations within the framework of the comparative historical research method in terms of borrowings, morphological and semantic transformations of terms based on the material of English, French and Russian languages. As a result of the study, three historical periods are distinguished as stages of military, cultural and trade relations and their respective influence on the formation of the terminological base of maritime transport. Such methods of terminology formation as borrowings, affixation, word composition, including the lexical blending method, abbreviation, change of meaning, as well as the differentiation of new concepts by creating stable phrases are considered. In the process of analysis, the gradation of inflection and analyticism of the above Indo-European languages in the field of water transport is highlighted, where Russian comes first, followed by French and English. To compare dictionary units, a table of more than a hundred ship nominations and a table of word-formation models of watercraft terms were compiled, statistical correspondence of borrowings was derived, and historical and cultural aspects of the processes of terminology formation were considered.

vessel, type of vessel, word formation, borrowing, word composition, affixation, reinterpretation, abbreviation, lexical blending method