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600,000 English words - Coggle Diagram
600,000 English words
4/5
Germantic
French
Anglo-Saxon
1/5
partly of three other kinds of words
imitative words
words that sound like the thing or action they stand for
buzz, click, bang ...
invented words
prefixes and suffixes
re- means “again”
mal- means bad or unpleasant...
-ness means “the condition of”
-ian means from or typical of
the nonsense word
chortle, hornswoggle, gobbledygook...
compound
raincoat, milkshake, upstairs...
words from the names of peoples and places
pasteurized
Louis Pasteur, a French doctor who invented the process for purifying milk
watt
James Watt, a Scottish engineer and inventor.
ampere
Andre M. Ampere, a French physicist
borrowed words