Vocabulary Q1

the explanation or description of what a thing is, or what a word/phrase means/has meant.

Origin and analysis of a word as shown by breaking it down into its constituent historical elements. "the study of the true/real meaning of a word"

collective term for prefixes, suffixes, and infixes.

the central element of a word which is left after the removal of all affixes.

one or more letters or syllables placed at the beginning of a word to modify it meaning. 

process by which adjacent sounds (usually consonants) acquire similar/identical characteristics. 

tendency toward greater ease of pronunciation resulting in combinative changes, largely due to speed and economy of utterance. 

a change in the internal vowel of a base, often went he base is prefixed. 

an abbreviation that spells a word or pronounceable unit. 

the creation of simpler forms from more complex forms, usually by the removal of an affix. 

The elimination of the first letter or syllable of a word. 

• -aphesis (loss of the first syllable of a word)
• -syncope (loss of syllabel in the middle of a word)
• -Apocope (loss of a syllable at the end of a word)

a word having the same linguistic derivation as another; from the same original word/root

process of forming a new word from an existing word. 

a Latin base has entered English twice; once from Latin and once from French