1 / 14

HOW TODAY's KIDS LEARN THE ALPHABET  

shafira-sears
Download Presentation

HOW TODAY's KIDS LEARN THE ALPHABET  

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. A/AN art. 1 [indefinite article before words beginning with vowels, 12c., from O.E. an (with a long vowel) "one; lone," also used as a prefix an- "single, lone;" see one for the divergence of that word from this. Also see a, of which this is the older, fuller form. O.E. got by without indefinite articles: He was a good man in O.E. was he wæs god man.] HOW TODAY's KIDS LEARN THE ALPHABET   Gone were the days where A stands for apple, and B for ball, and C for Cat. Morphemes: AN Cognates: a, an , one, another, alone (all + one), lonely Online Etymology Dictionary. www.etym.online. Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com.

  2. ABANDON v. 4 [from à "at, to" + bandon "power, jurisdiction," in phrase mettre à bandon "to give up to a public ban," from L. bannum, "proclamation," from a Frankish word related to ban (v.). Etymologically, the word carries a sense of "put someone under someone else's control." Meaning "to give up absolutely" is from late 14c. Morphemes: ad to + ban speak Cognates: ban, bandit, fame, fable, fabulous Online Etymology Dictionary. www.etym.online. Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com.

  3. ABBREVIATE v. 6 [mid-15c., from L. abbreviatus "shortened," pp. of abbreviare "to shorten" (see abbreviation). Also sometimes 15c. abbrevy, from M.Fr. abrevier (14c.), from L. abbreviare. Related: Abbreviated; abbreviating.]] Morphemes: ad to+ brev brief+ i + ATE v Cognates: brief Online Etymology Dictionary. www.etym.online. Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com.

  4. ABBREVIATION n. 6 [mid-15c., from M.Fr. abréviation (15c.), from L.L. abbreviationem (nom. abbreviatio), noun of action from pp. stem of abbreviare "make brief," from L. ad "to" (see ad-) + breviare "shorten," from brevis "short, low, little, shallow" (see brief (adj.)).] Morphemes: ad to + brev brief + noun suffix Cognates: Online Etymology Dictionary. www.etym.online. Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com.

  5. ABDOMEN n. 4 [1540s, "belly fat," from L. abdomen (gen. abdominis) "belly," of unknown origin, perhaps from abdere "conceal," with a sense of "concealment of the viscera," or else "what is concealed" by proper dress. Purely anatomical sense is from 1610s. Biological sense of "posterior division of the bodies of arthropods" first recorded 1788. ] Morphemes: Cognates: Online Etymology Dictionary. www.etym.online. Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com.

  6. ABIDE v. 5 [O.E. abidan, gebidan "remain, wait, delay, remain behind," from ge- completive prefix (denoting onward motion; see a- (1)) + bidan "bide, remain, wait, dwell" (see bide). The historical conjugation is abide, abode, abidden, but the modern formation is now generally weak. ] Morphemes: a on (as in alive, abroad, asleep) Cognates: bid, forbid, inhabit? Inhabitant? Association: inhabit, inhabitant Online Etymology Dictionary. www.etym.online. Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com.

  7. ABILITY n. 2 [late 14c., from O.Fr. ableté "expert at handling (something)," from L. habilitatem (nom. habilitas) "aptitude," noun of quality from habilis "easy to manage, handy" (see able). One case where a Latin silent -h- failed to make a return in English (despite efforts of 16c.-17c. scholars); see H. ] Morphemes: able + noun suffix Cognates: aptitude, apt, adapt, able, habit Online Etymology Dictionary. www.etym.online. Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com.

  8. ABLE adj. 1 [early 14c., from O.Fr. (h)able (14c.), from L. habilem, habilis "easily handled, apt," verbal adj. from habere "to hold" (see habit). "Easy to be held," hence "fit for a purpose." The silent h- was dropped in English and resisted academic attempts to restore it 16c.-17c., but some derivatives acquired it (e.g. habiliment, habilitate), via French]] Morphemes: cap, hab, ap, hav—hold, grasp + adj. suffix Cognates: apt, aptitude, habit, capable, have, capacity, captive Online Etymology Dictionary. www.etym.online. Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com.

  9. ABNORMAL adj. 6 [1835, displaced older abnormous (1742) and rival anormal (1835) under influence of L. abnormis "deviating from a rule," from ab- "off, away from" + norma "rule" (see norm). The older forms were via O.Fr. anormal (13c.), from M.L. anormalos, from Gk. anomalos, from an- "not" + homalos, from homos "same."] Morphemes: ab away from + norm + al adj. suf. Cognates: normal, norm, enormous (ex+norm, out of norm) Online Etymology Dictionary. www.etym.online. Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com.

  10. ABOARD adv./prep. 3 [from à "on" + bord "board," from Frank. *bord (see board); the "boarding" or sides of a vessel extended to the ship itself. O.E. bord "a plank, flat surface. The call all aboard! as a warning to passengers is attested from 1838 ] Morphemes: a on+ board Cognates: blackboard, cupboard, cardboard, keyboard Online Etymology Dictionary. www.etym.online. Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com.

  11. UNICORN[early 13c., from O.Fr. unicorne, from L.L. unicornus (Vulgate), from noun use of L. unicornis (adj.) "having one horn," from uni- "one" (see uni-) + cornus "horn" (see horn). ] Morphemes: UNI, HORN Cognates: Online Etymology Dictionary. www.etym.online. Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com.

  12. UNIVERSE[1580s, "the whole world, cosmos," from O.Fr. univers (12c.), from L. universum "the universe," noun use of neut. of adj. universus "all together," lit. "turned into one," from unus "one" (see one) + versus, pp. of vertere "to turn" (see versus). Properly a loan-translation of Gk. to holon "the universe," noun use of neut. of adj. holos "whole" (see safe (adj.)). ] Morphemes: UNI, VERS (TURN) Cognates: Online Etymology Dictionary. www.etym.online. Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com.

  13. References • Algeo, John. 2005. The Origins and Development of the English Language. Sixth edition. Boston: Wadsworth. • Brown, H. Douglas. 2007. Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy. 3rd edition. New York: Pearson Education. • Denning, Keith, Brett Kessler, and William R. Leben. 2007. English Vocabulary Elements. 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press. • Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams. 2011. An Introduction to Language. 9th edition, international edition. Wadsworth. • Online Etymology Dictionary. www.etym.online. • Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com. • Stockwell, Robert, and Donka Minkova. 2001. English Words: History and Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • 葉玉珠、高源令、修慧蘭等。2011。《教育心理學》。第二版。台北：心理出版社。 • 國立臺灣師範大學國音教材編輯委員會。2002。《國音學》。臺北縣新店市：正中書局。

  14. ENTRY[ ] Morphemes: Cognates:

More Related