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Why do we call them doughnuts?

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who has a question for Doug?

a)

Collin

b)

Conner

c)

Cohen

d)

Connell

2.

What kind of tool can help us solve the mystery of why things are named a certain name?

a)

Dictionary of Animals

b)

Thesaurus

c)

Dictionary of Etymology

d)

Encyclopedia

3.

Etymology means ...

a)

a word that means the opposite

b)

a word that means the same

c)

the story of a word

d)

what a word means

4.

Choose two ways have you seen this word spelled.

a)

doughnoot

b)

donut

c)

doughnut

d)

dohnut

5.

What are donuts/doughnuts made of?

a)

Sugar

b)

Dough

c)

Sprinkles

d)

Glaze

6.

The Dutch called donuts/doughnuts this name ...

a)

olykoek

b)

shmoop la doops

c)

pan

d)

sassenfringles

7.

Olykoak means

a)

Bread cake

b)

Oil dough

c)

Loyal cake

d)

Oil cake

8.

Which part of the donut/doughnut came later?

a)

the oil

b)

the sprinkles

c)

the hole

d)

the bread

9.

Before the donut/doughnut got its hole, it looked like a ________.

a)

nut

b)

wheel

c)

pencil

d)

dough

10.

An etymology dictionary you can go to online is ...

a)

etonline.com

b)

etymonline.com

c)

etyonline.com

d)

etymabconline.com