ABSTRACT
Throughout its long history Greek has always had a great facility for creating new words, either by modifying existing words by means of a suffix or a prefix, or by combining two or more word stems to form a compound. The great richness of the Greek language (as well as its role as a source of lexical borrowings in other languages) is due in large measure to the ease with which new words can be formed. In the following sections we can give only a very small selection of the various ways of forming words which have created the vocabulary of contemporary Greek. The process does not stop: many of the elements given in our examples continue to be productive in the formation of new words.
