World-building. Word formation

1.2 Conversation
1.3 Composition
1.4 Shortening
1.5 Motivation
1.6 Imitation
Conclusion 

part of the work We've wrote some lines about the term 'word' as the smallest independent unit of speech. Next, there is the definition of the field of word-formation. At the following part you can find some information about the affix word-formation of nouns, verbs and adjectives.

language. It consists of morphemes. The morpheme may be defined as the smallest meaningful unit which has a sound form and meaning and which occurs in speech only as a part of a word.
Word formation is the creation of new words from elements already existing in the language. Every language has its own structural patterns of word formation.

(free morphemes) to create a new word (commonly a noun, verb, or adjective). Also called composition, it is from the Latin for "put together".
Compounds are written sometimes as one word (sunglasses), sometimes as two hyphenated words (life-threatening), and sometimes as two separate words (football stadium). Compounding is the most common type of word-formation in English

latter part of a word so as to produce a new and shorter word of the same meaning

form of the word, i.e. its sound form, morphemic composition and structural pattern, and its meaning.
There are three main types of motivation: phonetic,morphological and semantic.

denote an action or a thing by more or less exact reproduction of the sound which is associated with it. Let’s compare such words from English and Russian: cock-a-dodoodle-do – ку-ка-ре-ку, bang – бах, бац (сильный удар).
Semantically, according to the source sound, many onomatopoeic words are divided into the following groups: 1) words denoting sounds produced by human beings in the process of communication or expressing their feelings, e.g. chatter, boor; 2) words denoting sounds produced by animals, birds, insects, e.g. moo, buzz; 3) words imitating the sounds of water, the noise of metallic things, movements, e.g. splash, scratch, swing.