Secondary borrowings in modern Russian: digital sphere verbs
Journal: Russian language at school
Year: 2023

The article examines verbs functioning in the sphere of digital technologies in terms of their entering the Russian language via secondary borrowing. The material of the study is verbs ending in -irovat ’ possessing computer and digital semantics. They are associated with the corresponding English words and at the same time coincide in form with old loanwords. These are the lexemes the Russian language assimilated a long time ago (for example, administer , activate , archive , block , generate ,