Find the etymological doublets in the sentences.

The origins of English words.

Etymology

1. Fill in the table with the words of Latin/Greek, French and Scandinavian origin. Consult a dictionary if you need.

Latin/Greek	French	Scandinavian

Apostle, army, autumn, bishop, call, candle, crime, cycle, happy, husband, ill, lesson, magister, major, method, pen, philosophy, police, prison, pupil, river, same, school, sky, status, take, they, ugly, war, window.

Match the specific features of the words and the source of borrowing.

· French

· Greek

· Scandinavian

3. Fill in the table with the words which are borrowed from the following languages (source of the borrowing): Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Indian languages.

Russian	French	Spanish	Italian	German	Indian Languages

Allegro, babushka, balcony, beluga, Bolshevik, cargo, cashmere, castanets, chauffeur, cliché, czar, duenna, embargo, fiancé, government, grotto, guitar, jungle, kirsch, kohlrabi, kümmel, kvass, largo, manifesto, merchant, moujik, opera, piano, pirozhki, pood, pyjamas, rouble, sable, samovar, schnapps, schnauzer, solo, spouse, sterlet, toreador, troika, umbrella, village, vodka, volcano.

4. Define the degrees of assimilation:

Absolutely assimilated

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Partially assimilated

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Non-assimilated

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air, clinic, communiqué, depot, gnochi, letter, namaz, phenomenon, place, rapport, street, vacuum, waltz, yuga, zarzuela.

Find the etymological doublets in the sentences.

a) He thinks maybe he should have made the decision to chase this dog himself.

b) New speed cameras will catch every driver breaking the limit.

c) It was easily identified as the corpse of a man we knew.

d) He devoted much of his work with the Army Medical Corps to ensuring that soldiers were fit to fight.

e) Prices to travel to the World Cup are being slashed after Fifa put pressure on airlines and tour operators

f) As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. Hayward. [1913 Webster]

g) It is liquor — spirits such as whisky, rum and gin — that is restricted to licensed liquor stores.

h) They give a bottle of black raspberry liqueur from France as a present.

6. Trace the origin of the words including in the lexico-semantic group «members of the family» and try to find the time of their appearance in the language

a) mother

b) father

c) sister

d) brother

e) nephew

f) niece

g) aunt

h) uncle

i) sibling

j) cousin

7. Trace the origin of the words including in the lexico-semantic group «colours» and try to find the time of their appearance in the language

a) black

b) white

c) green

d) grey

e) blue

f) purple

g) yellow

h) violet

i) red

j) orange

8. Try to establish the direction of the borrowing: English – Russian or Russian - English?

a) privatization - приватизация

b) babushka – бабушка

c) sputnik –спутник

d) metro –метро

e) kasha – каша

f) kvass – квас

g) pogrom – погром

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