Roots of English – 12

Dear Readers,

Here we are with our 12th 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 lud-, ludi-, lus- as a ROOT means play, make sport of, jest, sportive, pastime, false

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

ALLUDE –— to play with, to joke or to jest at, dally with, to touch lightly upon a subject

ALLUSION —– an indication of something, a mention of, a hint, a suggestion

ALLUSIVE —– to playing with words, punning 

ALLUSIVELY  —- referring to hinting something indirectly rather than speaking directly

COLLUDE  –— to act together secretly to achieve a fraudulent or deceitful purpose, to connive

COLLUSION —- literally, a playing together or an agreement or understanding for purposes of trickery or fraud

COLLUSIVE —- acting together in a private manner toward a fraudulent or illegal end

DELUDE —- to fool the mind or judgment of someone, so as to cause what is false to be accepted as true

DELUSION —- a false idea, belief, or opinion that is contrary to fact or reality

DELUSORY —- tending to mislead or to deceive

CASE II 

ROOT —-  luto-, lut-, luv-, lu-  means  wash, clean, washing of water against the shore, a flood

Now words we can guess of are –

ALLUVIAL—– relating to or consisting of any material that has been carried or deposited by running water

ABLUVION—– a substance, or things, that are washed away

ABLUENT —- a cleansing agent, a detergen

ABLUTED —- a reference to anything that is being washed and cleaned

ABLUTION —- a washing or cleansing; such as, a religious ceremony of purification

ABLUTIONARY —- a reference to a religious purification of the body by washing

ABLUTOMANIA —- an obsessional preoccupation with cleanliness, washing, or bathing, often accompanied by compulsive rituals

ABLUTOPHOBE —- someone who suffers from an obsessive dread or hatred of showering or bathing

ABLUTOPHOBIC —– a person who has a persistent or abnormal anxiety of bathing or washing

ALLUVIAL AQUIFER —– an underground water supply which comes from porous rock, sand, gravel, etc.

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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