Neologisms on the base of the lexical unit maidan in the Internet

The paper provides an analysis of the socio-political lexical unit maidan'- one of the keywords in the Slovak internet space in the 21st century. It should be noted that the primary spatial meaning of the unit is not so popular as its semantic derivative with an event meaning, which has become the basis for a series of new lexical units that form a word-building nest. This process can be observed in both Russian and Slovak languages. Although this unit as a common noun was previously unknown to the speakers of the Slovak language, the political events on the Independence Square in Kyiv made it the basis for the formation of a word-building nest with about 40 units. The most extensive in the Slovak language is its substantive block (15 lexical units), which includes names of people as well as abstract nouns. The verbal block consists of 12 derivatives, formed with the help of Slovak formants. These verbs themselves have become the basis for new units formed in a prefix way. The last group includes adjectives (10) with the meaning 'relating to', and their further prefixical derivatives. As for the word-forming processes, it can be stated that suffixation (15 lexical units) and prefixation (12) prevail in the word-formation nest in question, while addition (4) is less common, and confusion is found only in one case.

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