WORD LIST

UNIT 1

Allomorphs

Allomorphs

are different forms of one and the same morpheme

Example of Allomorphs

[in] / [im] -→ Inject and immigrate

Analyzing Words

When we analyze a word -→ we break it up into morphemes

• A Base

• A Prefix

• A Suffix

A Base

is a core part of a word that gives its central meaning

• For Example

  • Event -→ {vent}

A Prefix

Occurs at the front -→ is put before a base and alters its meaning

• For Example

  • {dis} -→ dissolve

A Suffix

is put after a base -→ usually does NOT add meaning but rather CHNAGES its function or use

• For Example

  • recreate / recreation

Anglo-Saxon

• Starts?

  • During?

• Ends?

  • During?

Also known as Old English

• Starts around 400 C.E]

  • when Germanic peoples enter -→ Britain

• Ends around 1100 C.E

  • when the Norman conquest is in 1066 C.E

A Borrowing

is a word from another language

• For Example

  • The word chic is borrowing from French

Content Words

Words that have an easy definition

• For Example

  • Dog

  • Eat

A Derivative

is a word that comes from another word and that word can be in the same language or another language

• For Example

  • The English word sentence is a derivative if Latin sentenia

  • The English word sleepy is a derivative of the ENglish word sleep.

Empty Morpheme

[Empty]

is a morpheme that to which no clear meaning can be assigned

• For Example

  • [re] -→ means “back“ in Repel

  • [re] -→ means “back“ in Resume

    • therefore it has no clear meaning

Etymology

the etymology of a word is its orgin

Full Morpheme

[full]

is a morpheme that has a meaning

[re] - in reprel

[re] - in resume

Function Words

Words that do not have an easy definition -→ but rather serve to hold content words together meaningfully

• For Example

  • The

  • If

Intensifying Morpheme

[intense]

is a morpheme that merely intensifies a word’s meaning

• For Example

  • [com] in commmotion

Middle English

• Starts?

• Ends?

  • During?

• Starts around 1100 C.E

• Ends around 1500 C.E

  • when the printing press is introduced in England

Morpheme

• is “a minimum unit of meaning“

• some words consists of one morpheme

• come consist of 2 or more morpheme

  • Full

  • Empty

  • Intense

Obsolete

is one that no longer used

• sometimes in dictionaries

  • are indicated with a dagger

    • (t)

Structure

is the way that words are put together to make meaningful expressions

• comes from words order and function words

Where do word order and function words in English come from?

Old English

• Anglo-Saxon