THE WORD-BUILDING MORPHEMES OF RUSSIAN AND FRENCH LANGUAGES
Russian and French languages have a lot in common in the field of word-building, since both of these languages belong to the Indo-European language family and did develop under the influence of Latin and Greek languages. Similarity of the word-building systems of these two languages are well seen, for example, in many French and Russian prefixes, that are loanwords and that have the same form and function. For example: Анти- (Anti-), Контр- (Contre-), Де- (De-), Псевдо- (Pseudo-), Транс- (Trans-), Пост- (Post-), Супер- (Super-), Ультра- (Ultra-), Би- (Bi-), Три- (Tri-), Мульти- (Multi-), Моно- (Mono-), Поли- (Poly-). In addition to that, affixes in the French and Russian languages can be brought together in few identical semantic groups, depending on the main meaning of the affix. For example, prefixes with negative meaning, in Russian language: Без- (Бес-), He-, Противо-. And in French: E-, In- (Im-, Ir-), Non-, Mai-, Me-, San-, Para-. Or the spatial prefixes: in Russian language: Вне-, Внутри-, При-, За-, Меж-, Над-, Под-, Пред-, Верхне-, Среди-, Средне-, Ниже-and in French: Circum-, Intra-, Extra-, Sons-, Sub-, Entre-, Avant and more. Thereby, the same historical roots and the influence from one to another during the long evolution process of Russian and French languages did cause the similarities in word-building system. Those are seen in the same affixes borrowed from Latin and Greek in both languages and in the word¬building morphemes that have the same meanings in both of these languages