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Origins and Development of the English Vocabulary - Coggle Diagram
Origins and Development of the English Vocabulary
assimilation
types
phonetical
graphical
grammatical
semantic
degrees
complete
partial
barbarism
the English lexicon
native words
native word stock includes:
words of Indo-European stock
terms of kinship
natural landscape
animals
body parts
common verbs
common adj
most numerals
words of Common Germanic stock
natural phenomena
domestic life
clothes
abstract notions
verbs denoting common actions
adj
many prepositions and pronouns
English words proper
later words formations based on Anglo-Saxon elements
words of indentified origins
borrowed words
types of loans
international words
science
arts
political terms
sports terms
computation
regional
folk etymology
etymological doublets
caused by shortening
caused by stressed and unstressed position
caused by the development of the word on different dialect
hybrids
native prefix+ borrowed stem
borrowed stem + native suffix
native stem+borrowed suffix
the borrowed elements
latin
4 periods of latin loans
early latin loans
later latin loans
latin loans in Middle English
the latest latin influence
scandandinavian
italian
French
greek
features of native lexicon
often monosyllabic
a wide range of lexical and grammatical valency
highly polysemantic
productive in forming new words
enter a number of set expressions