Inglise leksikoloogia
(nt, ööbik-nighttingale, knight ja singer). Time
goes, motivation shanges. If motivation is not clear, people try to give their own explanation. Folk
etymology-when motivation is not clear, people give their own explanation to a certain extent. It is folk
etmymology. It happenes to borrowed words most often (nt, french etiquette quite the ticket, meaning
proper, polite). To understand the mot of a word, we must know its history
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5. Morphemes, allomorphs. Types of morphemic segnetability.
Morphemes are the smallest lexical units (can not divide). They make up words. Morphemes have a
certain meaning. (nt, pre preplain, preview; less waterless; hood brotherhood). Some morphemes
have diff sounds(nt, please, pleasure, pleasant). They are variants of the same morpheme or allomorph.
Types: segmentable those we can divide into morphemes (nt, hero- ic; happy ness). Non-
segmentable- cannot divide any further (nt, luck, hand, smile).
Types of morphemic segmantability: