Etymology Questions

  A word which belongs to the original English stock is

• a native word

• a loan word

• a barbarism

• a semantic loan

A word taken over from another language and modified according to the standards of the English language is

• a native word

• a loan word

• a semantic loan

• an etymological doublet

Which approach to vocabulary studies is mainly used by descriptive lexicology?

• historical

• synchronical

• diachronical

The denotational meaning is ____

 

• The component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes

• the connotational meaning

• the component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words

• the component of the lexical meaning that makes communication possible

The native words are further subdivided into those of

• Indo-European stock and common Germanic origin

• Latin and Roman origin

• Greek and German origin

• Norse origin

The term denoting the development of a new meaning in an English word due to the influence of a related word in another language is

• translation loan

• hybrid

• semantic loan

• etymological doublet

  Loan words, which are partially assimilated ______ , usually borrowed from Latin or Greek, keep their original plural form.

• phonetically

• grammatically

• semantically

• graphically

Words from other languages used by English people in conversation or in writing but not assimilated in any way are

• completely assimilated words

• partially assimilated words

• barbarisms

• international words

   Two or more words of the same language which were derived by different routes from the same basic words are

• international words

• barbarisms

• etymological doublets

• hybrids

Barbarisms are ___

• completely assimilated borrowings

• partly assimilated borrowings

• non-assimilated borrowings