Beginning Syllables (and Etymology, work in Progress) Flashcards
build
byldan = (Old English)
bold / botl= dwelling (Old English)
Germanic
from Proto-Indo-European *bū-, Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁s-, and later Proto-Germanic *bōþlą (House, dwelling.)
building
builder
buy
Old English bycgan, of Germanic origin.
Proto-Germanic *bugjan
Middle English bien, from Old English bycgan (past tense bohte) “get by paying for, acquire the possession of in exchange for something of like value; redeem, ransom; procure; get done,”
buyer
buying
buoy
Middle English: probably from Middle Dutch boye, boeie, from a Germanic base meaning ‘signal’.
probably from Old French buie or Middle Dutch boeye, both of which likely are from Proto-Germanic *baukna- “beacon, signal”
built
buys
cent
late Middle English (in the sense ‘a hundred’): from French cent, Italian cento, or Latin centum ‘hundred’
center
late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin centrum, from Greek kentron ‘sharp point, stationary point of a pair of compasses’, related to kentein ‘to prick’.
celery
mid 17th century: from French céleri, from Italian dialect selleri, based on Greek selinon ‘parsley’.
city
Middle English: from Old French cite, from Latin civitas, from civis ‘citizen’. Originally denoting a town, and often used as a Latin equivalent to Old English burh ‘borough’, the term was later applied to the more important English boroughs.
centipede
early 17th century: from Latin centipeda, from centum ‘a hundred’ + pes, ped- ‘foot’
circle
Old English circul, from Latin circulus ‘small ring’, diminutive of circus ‘ring’; subsequently reinforced by Old French cercle .
cell
Old English, from Old French celle or Latin cella ‘storeroom or chamber’.
Cecil
Cecil is the Anglicized form of the noble Welsh surname Seisyll, which comes from the Latin name Sextilius or Sextus, meaning “sixth.” It also comes from the Latin family name Caecilius, which is derived from the name Caecus, which means “blind.”
chicken
Old English cīcen, cȳcen, of Germanic origin
chop
late Middle English: variant of chap
“to cut with a quick blow,” mid-14c., of uncertain origin, not found in Old English, perhaps from Old North French choper (Old French coper “to cut, cut off,” 12c., Modern French couper), from Vulgar Latin *cuppare “to behead,” from a root meaning “head,” but influenced in Old French by couper “to strike” (see coup). There are similar words in continental Germanic (Dutch, German kappen “to chop, cut”).
chin
Old English cin, cinn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin gena ‘cheek’ and Greek genus ‘jaw’.
Old English word ceace, “jaw,” which probably stems from ceowan, “chew.”
chips
Middle English: related to Old English forcippian ‘cut off’.
chill
Old English cele, ciele ‘cold, coldness’, of Germanic origin; related to cold
chick
Middle English: abbreviation of chicken.
check
Middle English (originally as used in the game of chess): the noun and exclamation from Old French eschec, from medieval Latin scaccus, via Arabic from Persian šāh ‘king’; the verb from Old French eschequier ‘play chess, put in check’. The sense ‘stop or control’ arose from the use in chess, and led (in the late 17th century) to ‘examine the accuracy of’.
