WorksheetsAssignment 5: Etymology Review
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 20mins
Match the following ways words come into our language with their definitions:
borrowing
the word is borrowed from another one
acronym
words formed by combining the initials or parts of older words together
compounding
jamming two words together
agglutination
building new words by adding word parts (prefixes and suffixes) to existing word roots
Match the following:
loan word
kimono
bagel
acronym
taser
FID
compounding
living room
marketplace
agglutination
unverifiable
disfiguring
new meaning over time
husband
hazard
Etymology is the study of word (a) .
Words borrowed from other languages are called (a) words.
A(n) (a) is a word formed from the initials, or other parts, of several words.
An (a) is building new words by adding word parts to existing word roots.
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.
During the (a) , new English words were invented using Latin and Greek root words.
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.
Missionaries from Rome brought (a) words.
(a) invaded and brought words from Old Norse.
In the year (a) , French invaders called the Normans conquered England and introduced French.
Writers such as (a) , John Milton, and Edmund Spenser invented new words. They were (b) and studied (c) , so they built new words by (d) from those languages
