Strange Words
These are words with preexisting roots & forms (usually in Greek & Latin)
What are inkhorn terms?
This famous English writer introduced nearly 2000 words to the English language during the Elizabethan era.
Who is Shakespeare?
Most permanent additions to English were these types of words.
What are nouns, adjectives, and verbs?
Many English words borrowed from Latin during the Renaissance end in this.
What is -ate?
Most new words were introduced through this.
What is writing/literature?
These are the 3 types of strange, new words introduced during the Renaissance.
What are inkhorn terms, foreign words, and Chaucerisms?
Purists rejected Chaucerisms for this reason.
What is they had already fallen out of use once before?
The vast majority of permanent additions were this type of strange word.
What are foreign words?
When words were reintroduced to English, this was often changed.
What is the meaning?
In many cases, this was supposed to make the meaning clear.
What are context/prior knowledge of foreign languages?
Many foreign words came through, but not directly from this language.
What is French?
Inkhorn terms were usually meant to fill a _ gap
What is semantic?
Most of the foreign words permanently added to the English vocabulary have roots in this language.
What is Latin?
This is the most common reason why strange words were rejected or fizzled out.
What is they simply were not needed?
The Oxford English Dictionary estimates that slightly above this many new words were added to English during the Renaissance.
What is 12,000?
Most foreign words were borrowed because of this.
These are the type of inkhorn words that typically survived.
What are words that actually filled a need? (Such as the Greek encyclopedia)
Permanent additions were usually kept for this reason.
What is to fill a gap in the language?
Latin words were typically adapted to English by doing this.
What is changing word/verb endings?
Explanations of new words were often included in this way after the word itself.
What is parenthetically?
Words such as alligator, apricot, armada, banana, barricade, bravado, cannibal, canoe, hammock, hurricane, mosquito, and tobacco are examples of words borrowed from this language.
What is Spanish?
This person once wrote "I am of this opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges."
Who is Sir John Cheke?
The renewed study of this language during the Renaissance led to many new permanent additions to English.
What is Greek?
Words such as climax, epitome, exterior, delirium, & axis are words that did this.
What is kept their original Latin form?
The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written by English schoolteacher Robert Cawdrey in this year.
What is 1604?