Assignment 5: Etymology Review

Match the following ways words come into our language with their definitions:

• jamming two words together

• borrowing

• words formed by combining the initials or parts of older words together

• acronym

• the word is borrowed from another one

• compounding

• building new words by adding word parts (prefixes and suffixes) to existing word roots

• agglutination

Match the following:

• living room

  marketplace

• acronym

• husband

  hazard

• loan word

• unverifiable

  disfiguring

• compounding

• taser

  FID

• agglutination

• kimono

  bagel

• new meaning over time

Etymology is the study of word ​ (a)   .

• origins
• spellings

Words borrowed from other languages are called ​ (a)   words.

• loan
• dialect

A(n) ​ (a)   is a word formed from the initials, or other parts, of several words.

• acronym
• compound

An ​ (a)   is building new words by adding word parts to existing word roots.

• agglutination
• abbreviation

Choose the correct statement:

• Sometimes words develop new meanings over time.

• Word meanings always stay the same.

The first speakers of Old English were a ​ (a)   tribe called the Anglo-Saxons.

• Germanic
• French

During the ​ ​ (a)   , new English words were invented using Latin and Greek root words.

• Renaissance
• Middle Ages

A ​ (a)   is a recently created word that can be used to describe some new concept or to make something sound more up-to-date.

• neologism
• neolithic