Inglise leksikoloogia
the bible (nt, hallelujah, Massiah). In the 17th cent England started to conqure other countrys such as
India (nt, cashmere, nirvana, bungalo), Chinese (nt, gingseng, tea), Japanese(geisha, sushi, kimono,
samurai, harakiri), North.Am Indians(moccasin, tomahawk, wigwam).
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17. How to tell a borrowing from a native word?
The initial posistion of sounds may be important (nt, vacuum is Latin, valley is French, also genre.
Combination of letters( ph, kh, aeu) speak about foreign origin(nt, philology, beautiful). Sometimes it
is possible to tell the immediate source of borrowing (ch): maschine is French, echo is Greek; cheese,
child is Latin or native. If a word has many syllables and the stress falls on the last one, we have a
foreign word (nt, picturesque, magazine, cigarette). Grammatical forms may be strange to English. We
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