CLA201H1 Lecture Notes - Preposition And Postposition, Elision, Hybrid Word
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Root: element that has a common meaning to all words of a related group. Prefix: element attached to the beginning of a root to elaborate, qualify or intensify meaning. Generally derived from a preposition or an adverb. Other roots that are components of compound words do not count as prefixes. Suffix: element attached to the end of a root to contribute its meaning to a word. May indicate part of speech, gender, case, number, person, tense, mood or voice. Combining vowel: vowel between two constructive units of a compound word (usu. o/i) Usually not used when the following word begins with a vowel. Vowel gradation: changes in root vowel of closely related words (eg. sit, sat, set, seat) Elision: omission or supression of a vowel when an element ending in a vowel is prefixed to another beginning with a vowel, where first element loses its final vowel. Transliteration: transposition of a word from one language into another.
