Word Formation 2

the word 'edit' from 'editor' is a result of...

• clipping

• backformation

• coinage

• borrowing

Which of the following is an example of 'back-clipping'?

• phone

• disco

• smog

• brunch

the invention of total new words in language is called?

• borrowing

• clipping

• coinage

• reduplication

Which one includes indirect borrowing?

• core borrowing

• loan blends

• cultural borrowing

• therapeutic borrowing

'Bike' is a clipped form of which word?

• bicyclist

• bicarbonate

• bicuspid

• bicycle

In which type of reduplication do you find the repetition of a base or a portion of it with a change in vowel quality?

• ablaut reduplication

• partial reduplication

• rhyming reduplication

• exact reduplication

Which of these is an example of rhyming reduplication?

• teenie-weenie

• flip-flop

• choo-choo

• zig-zag

The word 'text' in the sentence "I will text you later" undergoes a conversion from?

• noun to verb

• verb to noun

• adjective to verb

• noun to adjective

Coinage is also known as ....

• cognate

• hypernym

• polysemy

• neologism

Which of the following word formation that change the word meaning, the word form, and the word class?

• coinage

• clipping

• backformation

• conversion