Questions and assignments

Questions and assignments

1. From what languages and when did the English language received the following words: orange, receive, street, chess, kiln, sovereign, potato, fetish? Prove your point of view.

Street borrowed from Latin (7 th century)

2. Give five examples each of Latin words borrowed to English directly and via French and state the time of the borrowing.

3. What are word-hybrids? Give examples of word-hybrids consisting of three or more elements different by origin.