The document discusses different methods of word formation, including etymology, clipping, and acronyms. It defines etymology as the study of the origins and history of words. Etymologists use various techniques like comparing related languages and studying semantic changes to trace how words evolved over time. While an etymology reveals a word's root, its contemporary definition may differ from its original meaning. The document also defines clipping as shortening words by dropping syllables, and describes different types like back, fore, and middle clipping as well as complex clipping involving compound words.

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2. Word formation
 Creating entirely new words .
 Etymology
 Clipping
 Acronym
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3. Etymology
 is the study of the history of words, their
origins, and how their form
and meaning have changed over time.
By an extension, the term "etymology (of
a word)" means the origin of a particular
word.
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4. Etymologists apply a number of methods to
study the origins of words, some of which are:
 Philological research. Changes in the
form and meaning of the word can be
traced with the aid of older texts, if such
are available.
 Making use of dialectological data. The
form or meaning of the word might show
variations between dialects, which may
yield clues about its earlier history.
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5.  The comparative method. By a systematic
comparison of related languages,
etymologists may often be able to detect
which words derive from their common
ancestor language and which were instead
later borrowed from another language.
 The study of semantic change. Etymologists
must often make hypotheses about changes
in the meaning of particular words. Such
hypotheses are tested against the general
knowledge of semantic shifts. For example,
the assumption of a particular change of
meaning may be substantiated by showing
the same type of change has occurred in
other language .
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6. What's the Difference Between a Definition
and an Etymology?
 A definition tells us what a word means
and how it's used in our own time.
An etymology tells us where a word came
from (often, but not always, from another
language) and what it used to mean.
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7. Example :
 the definition of the word disaster is "an
occurrence causing widespread
destruction and distress; a catastrophe" or
"a grave misfortune." But the etymology of
the word disaster takes us back to a time
when people commonly blamed great
misfortunes on the influence of the stars.
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8. Is the Etymology of a Word
Its True Definition?
 Not at all, though people sometimes try to
make this argument. The
word etymology is derived from the Greek
word etymon, which means "the true
sense of a word." But in fact the original
meaning of a word is often different from
its contemporary definition.
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9. Example:
Salary
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10. Clipping
 In morphology, a word formed by
dropping one or more syllables from a
polysyllabic word
 A part of a word which serves for the
whole
 such as cell from cellular phone
 Indie(independent),exam(examination)
Flu(influenza) fax(facsimile).
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11. Types of Clipping
 Back clipping
 Back clipping is the most common type, in
which the beginning is retained. The
unclipped original may be either a simple
or a composite.
 Examples:
ad (advertisement), cable (cablegram),
doc(doctor), exam (examination), fax (facs
imile), gas (gasoline), gym (gymnastics,
gymnasium), memo (memorandum), mutt (
muttonhead), pub (public
house), pop (popular music).
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12. Types of Clipping
 Fore-clipping
 Fore-clipping retains the final part.
 Example:
chute (parachute), coon (raccoon), gator
(alligator), phone (telephone), pike (turn
pike), varsity (university).
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13. Types of Clipping
 Middle clipping
 the middle of the word is retained.
 Example:
flu (influenza), jams or jammies (pajamas/
pyjamas), polly (apollinaris), shrink (head-
shrinker), tec (detective).
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14. Types of Clipping
 Complex clipping
 One part of the original compound most
often remains intact.
 Examples are:
cablegram (cable telegram), op
art (optical art), org-man (organization
man), linocut (linoleum cut).
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15. Types of Clipping
 Sometimes both halves of a compound
are clipped as
in navicert (navigation certificate)
 bodbiz, Chicom, Comsymp, Intelsat,
midcult, pro-am, photo op, sci-fi, and
sitcssom are all compounds made of
clippings.
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