Prefixes
Bases
Word Origins
Evolution of English
Linguistic Terms
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This Greek prefix means "opposite"
What is anti
100
A Greek base meaning "skill"
What is techne
100
This Greek goddess of retribution gives us our word meaning "long standing rival"
Who is Nemesis
100
This is the language Chaucer wrote in
What is Middle English
100
One way of describing the science of words, like morphologic or linguistic, this word means "pertaining to speech sounds"
What is phonetic
200
A Greek prefix meaning "through" or "thoroughly"
What is dia
200
A Greek base meaning "to split"
What is schiz
200
These harsh and severe laws were originally created by an Athenian judge
What is Draconian
200
This is the language the Epic Beowulf was composed in
What is Old English
200
This is the name for when a word changes its meaning
What is a semantic change
300
A Latin prefix meaning "both" or "around"
What is ambi/ambo
300
A Greek base meaning to turn
What is stroph
300
This word comes from the story of an Athenian messenger who famously ran to get military aid against the Persians
What is marathon
300
These are the years where Middle English flourished
What is 1066-1200
300
This is the word for when one of two identical sounds in a word changes in order to be less identical
What is dissimilation
400
A Latin prefix meaning "against"
What is contra
400
A Latin base meaning "to disturb" or "movement"
What is turb
400
This word originated with the Latin "pagus" meaning country side
What is pagan
400
This is the number of branches on the Proto Indo European language tree
What is twelve
400
The surname Johnson is considered this
What is a patronymic
500
A Greek prefix meaning "with" or "together"
What is syn, sym, syl, sy, or sys
500
A Latin base meaning root
What is radic or radix
500
This word came from the biblical character Mary Magdeline, meaning "tearful"
What is maudlin
500
This is the number of cases Latin nouns have
What is five
500
Similar to aphesis, this is the word for the linguistic phenomenon of the first vowel sound being lost from a word
What is aphaeresis
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