ASSIGNMENTS FOR SEMINARS
SEMINAR No. 1
I. Etymological survey of the English word-stock. Topics for discussion.
1.Definition of terms native, borrowing, translation loan, semantic loan.
2.Words of native origin and their characteristics.
3.Foreign elements in Modern English. Scandinavian borrowings, classical elements-
Latin and Greek, French borrowings, Russian-English lexical correlations.
4.Assimilation of borrowings. Types and degrees of assimilation.
5.Etymological doublets, hybrids.
6.International words
Exercise 2.
Explain the origin of the following words: father, brother, mother, dog, cat,
sheep, wolf, house, life, earth, man, apple, live, go, give, begin, strong, long, wide, to,
for, from, and, with, I, he, two, well, much, little.
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