enables people to create new words by building on the available stock of existing words parts, affixes.
What is Derivation
100
yogurt
What is Turkish?
100
From one part of speech to another.
ex. to walk, a walk
What is Conversion?
100
the history of the word.
What is etymology?
200
pumpkin
What is French?
200
the process by which something, as a word or custom, is adopted or absorbed
What is Borrowing?
200
boss
What is Dutch?
200
The use of only the first letter of each work in a series thereby creating a new word.
What is Acronym?
200
main entry words.
What is lemmata?
300
aardvark
What is Afrikaans?
300
words with multiple meaning and uses.
What are polysemous?
300
pretzel
What is German?
300
Creation of new something new through selective compounding.
What is Blending?
300
LASER
What is light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation?
400
algebra
What is Arabic?
400
that the present-day meaning of a word or phrase should necessarily be similar to its historical meaning
What is Etymological Fallacy?
400
croissant
What is French?
400
the alteration of a noun to create a new verb.
What is Backformation?
400
refers to a variety of pain-reducing over the counter pills, tablets, an caplets.
What is aspirin?
500
bizarre
What is Basque?
500
New, never used before.
What is coinage?
500
coffee
What is Arabic?
500
practice for people to reduces two or more syllables to just one syllable.
What is Clipping?
500
words and expression of frequently used by or intelligible to a rather large portion of the general American public but not accepted as good formal usage by the majority.