How Do You Determine Root Meanings Of Words?
The English language is a complex and diverse accumulation of words and grammatical structures borrowed from many other languages. This diversity is a consequence of the history of the people who have used the language, in particular the English, who have, over the centuries, been attacked or invaded by the Latin-speaking Romans, Celtic-speaking Vikings and French-speaking Normans. Because of this, and the natural evolution of the language, the original root origins of a word can be hard to find, but there are approaches you can take. Break the word into its constituent parts. Many words are aggregates of two or more other words or word parts. For example, the word “breakfast” is actually a compound word made up of the two words “break” and “fast.” The original meaning is that when you rise after a night’s sleep to eat you are breaking your “fast.” Many words have either a prefix or a suffix that, when separated, help to clarify the root meaning of the word. Some words have both, such
