Creating new words
- Created by: Luke Mitchell
- Created on: 20-01-13 11:28
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- Creating new words
- Borrowing
- borrow words from different language
- A lot of borrowed words are for food e.g. "Spaghetti" from Italian
- Scientific Progress
- Advances in medicine, science and technology cause new words to be invented
- Affixation
- words can be created be affixation, where new prefixes and suffixes added to existing words
- Many words in language created by adding Latin or Greek prefixes/ suffixes e.g. Greek word "hyper" found in words like "hyperactive"
- Compounding
- sometimes new word created by combining 2 separate words to create one word known as compounding e.g. "thumb" combined with "print" to make "thumbprint"
- Blending
- when two separate words merge together to create one word e.g. "satnav" blend of "satellite" and "navigation"
- Conversion
- New words also created when existing word changes class for example may words started off as nouns are now used as verbs e.g. "text - to text"
- Borrowing
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