ROLE OF THE MORPHEME -Ӣ IN WORD-BUILDING (based on the material "A Brief Explanatory Dictionary of the Tajik Language" by S. Ayni)
This article deals with the possibilities of word-building of the morpheme -ӣ. As the results of the study of the use of suffixes -ӣ in S. Aini's «Dictionary» show, this suffix is one of the active components in word-building. The words formed by this suffix have an allomorph -гӣ. Scientific analysis of the material shows that the number of words formed by this suffix is 202 units, in particular 80 adjectives and 20 words from both nouns and adjectives. Lexical units referring to nouns in S. Aini's «Dictionary» denote different meanings. They denote by the names of dishes, drinks, fruits, medicines, clothes, dishes, diseases, occupations, flowers, persons, birds, flora, relationships and accessories, places, temperatures, conditions, abstract concepts. On the basis of a specific linguistic material, the author has proved that S. Aini's Dictionary is one of the useful dictionaries for determining the models of word-building in the Tajik language.