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Etymology Questions
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Margaret Anderson
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A word which belongs to the original English stock is
a native word
a loan word
a barbarism
a semantic loan
Tags
CCSS.L.5.4B
CCSS.L.6.1E
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
Tags
CCSS.L.5.4B
CCSS.L.6.1E
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which approach to vocabulary studies is mainly used by descriptive lexicology?
historical
synchronical
diachronical
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.6
CCSS.L.9-10.6
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.6
CCSS.L.9-10.6
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.W.8.2D
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
Tags
CCSS.L.5.4B
CCSS.L.6.1E
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
Tags
CCSS.L.5.4B
CCSS.L.6.1E
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Loan words, which are partially assimilated ______ , usually borrowed from Latin or Greek, keep their original plural form.
phonetically
grammatically
semantically
graphically
Tags
CCSS.L.5.4B
CCSS.L.6.1E
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