Assignment 1.7 - Brady Whitteker

History of English Activity 1.7

 

 

Part 1

 

Potato

 

Part of speech: Noun

Plural: Potatoes

Definition: The edible tuber of a cultivated plant of the nightshade family.

 

Etymology: Spanish

 

Luddite

Part of speech: Noun

Plural: Luddites

Definition: A member of any of various bands of workers in England, organized to destroy manufacturing machinery, under the belief that its use diminished employment.

Etymology: Modern English, named after Ned Ludd

 

Habit

 

Part of speech: Noun

Plural: Habits

Definition: An acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary.

Etymology: Middle English

 

Gypsy

Part of speech: Noun

Plural: Gypsies

Definition: A member of a nomadic, Caucasoid people of generally swarthy complexion, who migrated originally from India, settling in various parts of Asia, Europe, and, most recently, North America.

Etymology: Middle English

 

Gang

Part of speech: Noun

Plural: Gangs

Definition: A group or band

Etymology: Middle English, Old English

 

Thug

Part of speech: Noun

Plural: Thugs

Definition: A cruel or viciours ruffian, robber, or murderer 

Etymology: Hindi

 



Autobiography

Part of speech: Noun

Plural: Autobiographies

Definition: The history of a person's life written or told by that person

Etymology: Greek

 

Part 2

 

Balaclava: Named after Balaklava

 

Wellingtons: Named after Arthur Wellesley "The Iron Duke"

 

Sandwich: Named after John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich


Part 3

Prefix: An affix placed before a word to change the word's meaning

Suffix: An affix that follows the element to which it is added.

Root: A morpheme that underlies an inflectional or derivational paradigm

Part 4

Auto: A combining form meaning "Self"
Bio: A combining form meaning "Life"
Graphy: A combining form denoting a process or form of writing, drawing, recording, describing, representing, etc, or an art or science concerned with such a process.

Part 5

"Car" comes from the Old Irish world carr meaning "wheeled vehicle". Cars are also called automobiles because they move themselves. Auto meaning "self", mobile meaning "moving"

"Television"  is a combination of the Greek word tele meaning "far" and the Latin word visio meaning "sight"

Part 6

Boomerang: Comes from the Dharuk word bumarin
Juggernaut: Comes from the Hindi word Jugannath meaning ruler of the world
Malady: Comes from Old French, which comes from Latin phrase male habitus meaning in poor condition
Calypso: Comes from the Greek word kalyptein meaning to conceal
Candy: Comes from the Persian word quand meaning cane sugar
Anorak: Comes from the Greenland Eskimo word anoraq
Pyjamas: Comes from the Persian word paejamah literally meaning leg clothing.