diff --git a/_posts/2021-02-08-the-morphology-of-english-words.md b/_posts/2021-02-08-the-morphology-of-english-words.md index 17e00dc4c..396b42a09 100644 --- a/_posts/2021-02-08-the-morphology-of-english-words.md +++ b/_posts/2021-02-08-the-morphology-of-english-words.md @@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ Roman scripts. It’s quite interesting to learn how each letter was formed. access to" - `clus`: the same as `clude` (e.g. recluse) - `col`: column (e.g. coliform, `col` + `i` + `form`) +- `cor`: heart (e.g. cordial) - `corn`: horn (e.g. unicorn) - `cover`: cover (e.g. coverall, bedcover, covert) - `cracy`: rule, power (e.g. aristocracy, democracy) @@ -450,6 +451,9 @@ Roman scripts. It’s quite interesting to learn how each letter was formed. - `fect`: the same as `fact` (e.g. perfect, pluperfect, effect, defect, affect, infect, disinfect, confect) - `feit`: the same as `fact` (e.g. forfeit, surfeit, counterfeit) +- `fenc`: the same as `fend` (e.g. fence, defence) +- `fend`: to strike, hit, push (e.g. defend, fender, defendable) +- `fens`: the same as `fend` (e.g. defensible, indefensible, defenceless) - `fest`: (able to be) seized (e.g. manifest, infest) - `fer`: to carry, to bear (e.g. confer, infer, transfer) - From Latin `ferre` @@ -542,15 +546,17 @@ Roman scripts. It’s quite interesting to learn how each letter was formed. - `loc`: a place, spot (e.g. local, locality, locomote, matrilocal, allocate, relocate) - From Latin `locus` -- `locut`: the same as `log` +- `locut`: the same as `log` (e.g. locution, elocution, interlocutor) - `log`: speech; to speak; word, speech, thought; the same as `lect` (e.g. logo, logger, apology, catalogue, waterlog, logarithm, syllogism, blog = weblog, ideologue, homologue, decalogue, apology, dialog, logic, monologue, eulogy, - epilogue, neologize, slogan) + epilogue, neologize, slogan, philology, analog, phonological, genealogical, + tautological, prologue, pseudology, antilogy, dyslogy) - From Greek `legein` = to speak, `logos` = word, speech, though - From Latin `loqui` = to speak - `logos`: the same as `log` -- `loqu`: the same as `log` +- `loqu`: the same as `log` (e.g. eloquence, quoloquy, ventriloquy, soliloquy, + loquacious, grandiloquent) - `low`: low - `lun`: moon (e.g. lunar) - `main`: the same as `man` (e.g. maintain) @@ -744,7 +750,7 @@ Roman scripts. It’s quite interesting to learn how each letter was formed. - `seri`: weighty, important, serious, grave, strict, austere (e.g. serious) - From Latin `serius` - `sev`: the same as `seri` (e.g. severe, persevere) -- `sol`: sole (e.g. sojourn) +- `sol`: sole (e.g. sojourn, soliloquy) - `sim`: the same as `sem` (e.g. simple) - `simil`: the same as `sem` (e.g. similar, facsimile) - `simul`: the same as `sem` (e.g. simulate) @@ -894,6 +900,7 @@ Roman scripts. It’s quite interesting to learn how each letter was formed. - From Latin `venire`, from the three-V instrument. - `vent`: the same as `ven` (e.g. advent, ventiduct, event, convention, invent, prevent, circumvent, convenient, venture, subvention) +- `ventr` belly (e.g. ventriloquy) - `ver`: true, trustworthy (e.g. verdict) - `verb`: a word; to speak, say (e.g. verbal) - `vert` to turn, bend (e.g. convert, subvert) @@ -945,7 +952,7 @@ Roman scripts. It’s quite interesting to learn how each letter was formed. - `andeno`: gland-like (e.g. andenoma, andenovirus) - `ant`: in front of, forehead, before (e.g. antedate, anteroom, anticipate, antique) - `anti`: opposed to or against something (e.g. anti-virus, antibiotic, - antipathetic, anti-cheating) + antipathetic, anti-cheating, antilogy) - `as`: the same as `ad` (e.g. assist) - `agri`: relating to farming (e.g. agriculture, agribusiness) - `agro`: the same as `agri` (e.g. agrobiology, agro-industry) @@ -1002,7 +1009,8 @@ Roman scripts. It’s quite interesting to learn how each letter was formed. directions, between," - `dis`: not or opposite (e.g. disagree, disfigure, difficult) - `du`: the same as `di` (e.g. duplicate, duplex) -- `dys`: bad, ill; hard, difficult; abnormal, imperfect (e.g. dysfunction) +- `dys`: bad, ill; hard, difficult; abnormal, imperfect (e.g. dysfunction, + dyslogy) - From Greek `dys-` - `e`: same as `ex` (e.g. evict, educe) - `ec`: the same as `ex-` (e.g. eclectic) @@ -1111,6 +1119,7 @@ Roman scripts. It’s quite interesting to learn how each letter was formed. - `per`: through; throughout; thoroughly; entirely, utterly; very (e.g. perfect, perform, persist, permit, persevere) - `pedo`: boy, child; foot (e.g. pedology, pedophile, pedometer) +- `pseudo`: false, lying; falsely; deceived (e.g. pseudologue) - `pir`: pear (e.g. piriform) - `plat`: small place (e.g. platform) - `poly`: multiple, many, entire (e.g. polytechnic, polycyclic, polyglot) @@ -1118,7 +1127,7 @@ Roman scripts. It’s quite interesting to learn how each letter was formed. - `pre`: before, ahead (e.g. preformed, prefigure) - From Latin `prae-`, before, ahead - `pro`: forward, before, forth (e.g. promote, prostitute, produce, profess, - profit) + profit, prologue) - It comes from `Prometheus`, who can predict the future. - `pur`: the same as `pro` (e.g. purpose, purview, purvey) - A variant of Latin pro "before, for" (see `pro-`) @@ -1162,6 +1171,7 @@ Roman scripts. It’s quite interesting to learn how each letter was formed. - `sus`: the same as `sub` (e.g. sustain) - Assimilated form of `sub-` before `-s-`. - `super`: above (e.g. superstructure, superstring) +- `tauto`: the same (e.g. tautological) - `tele`: at or over a long distance (e.g. television, telephone, telegraph, telecast, telemeter) - `tetra`: four (e.g. teracycline)