Roots of English – 8

August 25, 2016 Share Like Labels: gst

Dear Readers,

Here we are with our 8th session of our Roots of English hope this will help you with your English language preparation.

English language is made up of four parts

GREEK ROOTS, GERMAN ROOTS, FRENCH ROOTS, LATIN ROOTS

Now if you learn these roots you can figure out the meaning of hundreds of English language words without even knowing their exact meaning.

The first question arises here is what is a root?

A root is the part of the word which gives instructions to a word. Now how many parts is a word made of?

A word is made up of three parts.

For ex– subtracted

Sub (prefix) ——–tract (root) ———-ed (suffix)

Note: PREFIX—a word, letter or number placed before another.

SUFFIX—a letter or a group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning.

CASE I

Consider ANIM as a ROOT means mind, life, spirit, anger

Now with the help of this one root you can come out with conclusion of several other English words. Such as,

Animal —— means all living beings except humans

Animate –— give (a film or character) the appearance of movement (life) using animation techniques.

Animosity —– strong hostility

Anima —– the soul or inner self of a person

Animadversion —- strong criticism, censure, and disapproval

Animadversive –— Being critical, censuring, or making a censorious comment

Animalism —- A preoccupation with physical rather than spiritual needs.

Animalist —- A believer in, or a greater interest, in physical rather than in spiritual needs.

ROOT —- AMBUL means to walk

Now words we can guess of are –

Ambulatory —- relating to or adapted for walking

Amble — walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace

Ambulance —– a vehicle equipped for taking sick or injured people to and from hospital, especially in emergencies

Ambulant —– a reference to moving or walking around

Ambulatorial —- Being equipped or fit to walk

Ambulative —- A descriptive term for walking or for moving forward..

I hope this session will help you with your English Language Preparation.We will come back soon with our next session.

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