Ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic uzbekistan state world languages university

Compound words
consist of two or more root morphemes and an 
inflexion, e.g. “foreign-made”, “red-haired”, “to daydream”;
Compound-derived words
consist of two or more root morphemes, one or 
more affixes and an inflexion, e.g. “a stay-slim diet”,“an out-of-town 
performance”, “do-it-your-self principle”.
In the Uzbek language they can be classified into: 
Word 
Simple 
Derived 
Compound-derived 
Compound 

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Simple words
in Uzbek can be subdivided in to root “ ўқи”, “келди”, and 
derived “билим”, “улғай”, “серзавқ”. 
A distinctive feature of Uzbek language is having the types of words such 
pairs 
and 
repeated
ones which can be formed by a hyphen and give one meaning. 
Pair words in Uzbek can be formed as followings: 
The way of forming English, Uzbek and Russian short compounds are the 
same. There are three ways of forming short compounds: 
1.
The solid or closed form in which two usually moderately short words 
appear together as one. Solid compounds most likely consist of short 
(monosyllabic) units that often have been established in the language for a long 
time. Examples are; housewife, lawsuit, and wallpaper. 
Uzbekexamplesare: сувилон, тоғолча, гултувак. 
Russian examples are: водовоз, 
, 
сумасшедший. 
Pair words 
Жуфт сўзла
Both components 
can be used 
independently
Опа- ингил, ғам-
таш иш, 
 атта- ичи 
Both components 
cannot be used 
independently
онда- онда, 
апил- тапил, 
алғо -далғо 
Repeated words