This document discusses different ways that new words can be formed, including clipping, blending, compounding, acronyms, and folk or popular etymology. It provides examples for each method of word formation, such as "phone" being formed from clipping "telephone" and "smog" being formed by blending "smoke" and "fog." The document also discusses the study of word origins and histories called etymology.

1. Determining
Word Origins

2. How do you form
new words?

3. ♦Words can originate from
and be formed through
compounding, clipping,
blending, acronym, and
folk or popular
etymology.

4. Etymology
- the study of the history
and origins of words

5. 1. Clipping
-cutting off the beginning or the
end of the word
Examples:
(tele)phone - phone
photo(graph) - photo
rom(antic) com(edy) -romcom

6. Exercises:
flu

7. (in)flu(enza) - flu

8. pop

9. pop(ular music) - pop

10. gym

11. gym(nasium) - gym

12. ad

13. ad(vertisement) - ad

14. sci-fi

15. sci(ence) fi(ction) - sci-fi

16. 2. Blending
- combining two words
together to form a word
-usually, the first part of the
word is fused with the last
part of another

17. Examples:
motor + hotel = motel
motor - a machine that produces
motion or power for doing work
hotel - a place that provides lodging
motel - motorist's hotel
-a hotel provided ample
parking

18. turn + whirl = twirl
turn - to move around a
central point
whirl - to move in a circle
twirl - to turn or spin
something around and
around quickly

19. smoke + fog = smog
smoke - the cloud of black,
gray, or white gases
fog - many small drops of
water floating in the air
smog - fog mixed with
smoke

20. Exercises:
advertainment

21. advertisement + entertainment
= advertainment

22. biopic

23. biographical + picture =
biopic

24. brunch

25. breakfast + lunch =
brunch

26. hazmat

27. hazardous + material =
hazmat

28. simulcast

29. simultaneous + broadcast
= simulcast

30. 3. Compounding
-combining two to three
words to form a full form
-their meaning is either
different from its parts or
either the combined
meaning of the two words

31. Examples:
self + service = self-service
happy + go + lucky = happy-go-
lucky
back + slider =backslider (the
person who starts doing something
again after he stopped it)

32. sun + glasses = sunglasses
note + book = notebook
breast + feed = breastfeed
blue + berry =blueberry

33. 4. Acronym
- forming words through the
initial letter or syllables of
several words in
succession

34. Examples:
Light Rail Transit -LRT
Universal Serial Bus -USB
As Soon As Possible -ASAP
Personal Identification Number
-PIN

35. 5. Folk or Popular Etymology
-changing the word partially
or completely to make a
more familiar word
-the meaning of the word
changed as time passed by

36. Examples:
a. belfry
-derived from the Teutonic
word "berafrid" which means a
shed to shelter cattle and carts.
Later on, it was used to mean a
movable tower used in
attacking fortifications.

37. b. cockroach
-borrowed from the Spanish
word for the insect
"cucaracha"

38. c. penthouse
-borrowed from Anglo-
Norman "pentiz" which
means attached building.
Now, it is used to mean an
apartment on the top floor
or roof of a building

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