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The document provides examples of words from different languages and their origins. It also includes examples of word formation processes like affixation, back-formation and compounding. Various morphological and syntactic categories are exemplified through word lists.
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Exercises

The document provides examples of words from different languages and their origins. It also includes examples of word formation processes like affixation, back-formation and compounding. Various morphological and syntactic categories are exemplified through word lists.
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Ex. 2 p.

156
a) Indo - European: daughter, altar, angel, beet, cup, buich , cow, moon, red three,
heart, nose, goose, night, hundred
b) Germanic: Land, child. room, sea, answer, spring , old , make, xe, hand, good ,
water
c) English proper: woman , girl, lady always, lord, daisy

Ex. 3 p. 156
Latin
1st century B.C.
1) cherry, planted;
7) cups
8) Kitchen
5th century A.P.
4) streets
7th century A.P.
5) destruction
6) Burial, archibishop a bishop, concelebrated, a Mass, the Resurrection, players,
allar, cathedral, reserved
French
2) sausages
5) substance
Scandinavian
2) eggs, bread
4) wind
6) talking

Ex 4 p 156
Celtic : ason, aberdeen, Dun, Dundee, Rent Thames , Kent , Doren
Latin: Chester, Leicester , Linkoln , Winchester

Ex 5 p. 156
Scandinavian
1) wanted, husband, then
2) skeit
3) thing, takes
4) oty
5) big
7) die
8) skin
French :
1) beauty
2) blouse
Native :
5) down
6) slept
8) pale
Latin
1) position

Ex 6 p 154
a) fully assimilated; art, face, large, genre, bart, fruit, pleasure
b) partially assimilated: machine, finance, coup, hour, chauffeur, employee, arm,
capital , restore, poet, marine
c) unassimilated: bon mot, d'état, fatigue

Ex 2 p 160
Native (-en, y, -less, -ish, ful, -ness, un., mis -re -)
nuzzled , sudden , misfortune , reddened , tightened, purified , thoughtles, playfull,
tonality, uncertain , quietness, fragility, unemployed ? unthinkable, reassembled
French (en -) ennobled
Latin (ex- ,-able) unthinkable, ex-boxer, ex-fisher, ex -porter , ex-seaman , ex-
everything

Ex 3 p. 160
a) - er (-or): worker, writer, teacher , director -ist : novelist, tourist, artist, scientist
- eer (-ier) : carier, soldier, volunteer, engineer
- jan (-an, -n): american, musician, politician
- ant (-enf) : participant , independent, excellent
- ness: darkness
- ism: altruism, impressionism
- dom: freedom, Kingdom
- hood: "motherhood , neighborhood
- al: proposal, arrival
- ship: membership, friendship

- ilty: difficulty, beauty, liberty


- men:t development, improvement, achievement
- ion (-tion): perfection, education, direction
- age: pacage, marrige
- ing: playing , reading, recycling
- ie (-y): rundy, cloudy, icy
- fill: overfill
- less: nameless, meaningless, careless, homeless
- able: valuable, portable, changeable
- y: brainy, hairy, funny
- ish: selfish, foolish
- ly: carefully , sadly , mainly
- any (ary): dictionary, culinary, library
- ic (ical): historic , economic, athletic
- ive: effective, positive, sensitive
- ous: dangerous, curious , continuous
- ward : homeward, backward , upward
- ed: played planned, learned
- ize: memorize, realize, organize
-ate: desperate, congratulate
- (i)fy: fortify, simplify
- en: golden , wooden
b) un -: unimportant , unresersary
de - : decompose, decode
anti - :antisocial , antibiotic
non - : nonsense, nonexisting
in -: : injustice
dis - : dislike, disagree
out - : outlive, outgrow
over- : overpaid
under- : underground
re-: retell, rewrite
co - : cooperate , coworker
ex -: ex-president, ex-boyfriend
pre-: prewrite , prepaid
post -: postmodernism
sub- : submerge
super - : superman, superstar
extra-: extracredit
ultra -: ultraround
inter -: internet , international
trans -: transfer, translate
mis -: mislead
be-: behold
en - (em.): ensure, enslare

Ex 9 p 162
Verbs
I always book the tickets online
I should comb my hair before going to bed
Her nephew seemed to dog her every step before
She needs to dress herself up before going out.
Dry my hair, please .
The cut the hair again to even up the ends.
Hand me that bode, please .
He's just pocketed his key.
There issues have already been tabled.
It is recommended not to wet nich furniture
They wired a play .
The plane was corkscrewing towards the earth hours.
It's high time to have a break.
This mit is a really good buy.
He missed the catch.
Paperback books have soft covers
The cut wasn't deep, but it still heart.
There was a significant fall in the price
What make is your laptop?
She had several be stings
Give it a try!
On her return , she went straight to the office
The club was finally ready to stage a fightback.
The way to succes is full of ups and downs

Ex 4 p161
Simple neutral compound: wall-eye, keyhole, mainland, backbone, Bluebell, doorbell
, gentleman, watchover, eggplant , see-saw, home-made , homesick, two-year old.
Morphological: salergirl, Bridesmaid, tragicomic Franko-american, hydro-electric,
townswalk, handicraft
Derived neutral: can opener, one-eyed, trust- worthy, operating - 200m, timetested ,
dishwasher
Contracted neutral: H-bomb, U-turn

Ex 6 p161
A.P. - Anno Domini
a.m. - before noon
B.C. - before Christ
e.g. - for example
P.S - postscript
i. e. - that is
N. B. - nota bene
etc. - et cetera
p.m. - post meridiem

Ex 8 p. 162
answer (n.r.)
care (n.v.)
drink (n. v.)
work (n.v.)
fish (n., v.)
love (n., v)

Ex 10 p 162
1. Ph. D - rank of doctor of philosophy
2. x-rays - X- radiation
3. H.Q. - head quarters
4. AIDS- acquired insmunodeficiency syndrome
5 IQ - intelligence quotient
6. mid-March - middle March ABC - American Broadcasting Companies
7. T-shirt - training shirt
8. UV - ultraviolet
9. UNESCO-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
10 M.P. - member of Parliament

Ex 11 p. 162
· typewrite - typewriter
· catalyse - catalyst
· edit - editor
· baby- sit - babysitter
· audit - auditor
· stage- manage - stage manager
· ush - usher
· emplace - emplacement
· house-keep - housekeeper
· househunt - househunter
· telerise - television
· donate - donation
· legislate - legislation (законодавство)
· taperecord - taperecorder
· free- wheel - freewheeling
· swindle - swindler (шахрай)
· wallpaper- wallpapers
, locomote - locomotion (пересування)

Ex. 12 p. 163
1. hump-Backed - composition
frightening - affixation
2 iron - borrowed
leathery - affixation
3. stage-managed - back-formation
dress- rehearsal – composition
4. nursed - conversion
infancy - affixation
5. moorstone - composition
black-thorn - composition
handful - affixation
Bluebells- composition
6. cowboy - composition
deftners - affixation
tobacco Borrowed
7. papered - conversion / affixation
carpeted - conversion / affixation
8. blue-eyed - composition
flower-like - affixation
apple-blassom - composition
faintly - affixation
grey-blue -composition
9. pro - shortening
overrehearse - composition
10. Doc - shortening

Ex 5 p. 164
· drunch - „ drunk" + ", lunch"
· brunch - „breakfast" + " lunch"
· Oxbridge - „ Oxford" + " Cambridge
· Eurovision = ""Europe" + " television"
· cinemagnate - "cinema" + "magnate"
· stagflation - "stagnation" + " inflaction"
· smog - „smoke" + " fog
· canhomat - " cash" f-automat"
· cinegoer - " cinema" + "goes"
· slanguage - „slang" + " language"
· radiotrician - "radio" + "electrician "

Ex 44
airtel - "air" + "telephone"
atomaniac - "atom" +"maniac"
beefalo - " beef" + " Buffalo"
beefish - "beef" + "fish
boatel - „Boat" + " hotel"
breathalyzer - "breath" + " analyser"
cablevision - cable" + " television"
churnel - " channel" + " tunnel"
anegoer - " crisena" + " goer"
cinerama - " Cinema" + "panorama"
colorcast - " color" + " broadcast"
cyclotron =" cycle" + "tron"
datamation - " data" + "automation"
ecopolitics - "eco"+ "politics"
eldercare = "elder" + " care"
electrocute = " electro" + "execute"
Euratom - " Europe" + " atom"
glasphalt - " glass" + "asphalt"
helibus - "helicopter" + "bus"
heliport - "helicopter" + " port"
jetomic - " jet- "atomic"
keyphone - "key"+ " telephone"
medicare- "medical" + "care"
motel - " motor" + , hotel"
motorcade = "motor" + "cavalcade"
paratroops - " parachute" + "troops"
positron = "positive" + "electron"
skurfing - „sk" + " surfing"
slimnastics - „slim" + "gymnastics"

Ex 47
abide - abode
calre - calf
advice - advise
choose - choice
bathe - bath
clothe - clothing
believe - belief
deep - depth
bite - bite
deise - device
blood - bleed
breathe - breath
feed - food
breed - breed
fill - filling
broad - breadth
excuse - excuse
gild – gilding
glaze - glaze
quiere - grief
halve - half
house - house
use - use
knit - knitting
live - life
wreathe - wreath
long - length
loos - looseness
lose - loss
practise -practice
prove - proof
relieve - relief
serve - service
shelve- shelf
speak - speech
strong - strength
wide - width
worthy - worthiness
strike -strike

Polysemy
Bank
· place where money is kept
- country in most contexts (e.g. Switzerland is a neutral bank )
· схил або узбіччя річки (the river bank)

Bat
· ракетка для удару по м’ячу (baseball bat)
. нічний кажан (the animal bat)
· рухати обличчям вліво – вправо (to bat your eyelashes)

Bark
· гавкіт собак (dog's bark)
· зовнішній шар деревини (the bank of a tree)
- загарбна мова або крик (a harsh bank)

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