Borrowed from French
Latin and Greek Roots
Semantic Changes
Phonetic Assimilation
Old English Origins
100

This word refers to a type of meal served in courses and is borrowed from French.

What is menu?

100

The word philosophy comes from Greek roots meaning what?

What is “love of wisdom”?

100

This word originally referred to a small traveling bag but now often refers to "unwanted email."

What is spam?

100

This French word for a drink shop is pronounced with the diphthong /eɪ/ in English.

What is café?

100

This word for a common domesticated animal comes from Old English cu.

What is cow?

200

This word, meaning “a formal dance,” came from French.

What is ballet?

200

This Greek root means “life” and is found in the words biology and biography.

What is bio?

200

This word originally meant "a military operation," but now also means "to market aggressively."

What is campaign?

200

Borrowed from Italian, this word underwent assimilation and is now pronounced /ˈpɪtsə/ in English.

What is pizza?

200

The Old English word broc became this word for a small stream.

What is brook?

300

This word, meaning “an item of clothing or decoration,” comes from Old French coint.

What is quaint?

300

The Latin word aqua, meaning water, gives us this English word.

What is aquarium?

300

Originally meaning “a young servant,” this word now refers to a “knight in training.”

What is page?

300

The French word garage is pronounced with an anglicized /ʒ/ sound in English.

What is garage?

300

Derived from Old English, this word means “to think or consider carefully.”

What is reckon?

400

Borrowed from French, this word means "agreement" or "treaty."

What is accord?

400

From Greek, this word means “government by the people.”

What is democracy?

400

The word broadcast originally referred to sowing seeds but now means what?

What is “transmitting information through media”?

400

The Latin word camera was phonetically adapted into this English word.

What is camera?

400

From Old English fot, this word describes a part of the human body.

What is foot?

500

Meaning “a person of skill in a particular field,” this word came from French.

What is expert?

500

The Latin root scrib, meaning “to write,” is found in this word.

What is describe?

500

The word girl originally referred to what?

What is “a young person of either gender”?

500

The word colonel is an example of phonetic assimilation from what source language?

What is French?

500

Meaning “an enclosed piece of land,” this word comes from Old English tun.

What is town?