Словообразование и семантика наименований лиц женского пола в деловой и бытовой письменности ХVII в.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the word-formation and semantics of feminine personal nouns used in Russian Language of 17th century, close to the common parlance. The analysed feminine personal nouns are derived both from their masculine counterparts and other appellative nouns and verbs by the means of the suffixes: -иц(a), -(н)иц(a), -к(a), -ын(я), -их(a), etc. and they are neutral in meaning. Diminutive forms mainly have suffixes: -ишк-, and -ушк- and are used in polite expressions referring to the address.