Evolution of Words Flashcards
What is coinage
The creation of brand new words
What is borrowing
When words are taken from other languages(loan words)
What is affixing
Involves adding prefixes or suffixes to existing words
What is compounding
When words are combined to form a new larger words or expression
What are blends
When only parts of words are joined together (fog and smoke smog)
What is conversion
Occurs when the word class of an existing word changes
What is abbreviation
When a new word is formed by shortening an existing word in some way
What is back formation
A kind of shortening in which one type of word is shortened to form a word of another type (edit from editor)
What are acronyms
Words formed from the initial letters of existing words
What are initialisms
Words are abbreviated to their initial letters but the resulting set of letters are not pronounced as a word (MP)
Words from names
Words derived from the names of people places or brands
Lexical change
How new words are formed
Semantic change
How meanings are changed
Grammatical (syntactical and morphological) change
How words structures and arrangements have evolved
Phonological change
How sounds have shifted or varied
