Exercise 1. Subdivide all the following words of native origin into a) Indo-European, b) Germanic, c) English proper.

Daughter, woman, room, land, cow, moon, sea, red, spring, three, I, lady, always, goose, bear, fox, lord, tree, nose, birch, grey, old, glad, daisy, heart, hand, night, to eat, to see, to make.

Exercise 2. Identify the period of the following Latin borrowings; point out the structural and semantic peculiarities of the words from each period.

Wall, cheese, intelligent, candle, major, moderate, priest, school, street, cherry, music, phenomenon, nun, kitchen, plum, pepper, datum, cup, status, wine, philosophy, method

Exercise 3. Read the following extract. Which of the italicized borrowings came from Latin and which from French?

Connoisseurs of the song will be familiar with the name of Anna Quentin, distinguished blues singer and versatile vocalist. Miss Quentin's admirers, who have been regretting her recent retirement from the limelight, will hear with mixed feelings the report that she is bound to Hollywood. Miss Quentin, leaving for a short stay in Paris, refused either to confirm or to deny a rumour that she had signed a long-term contract for work in America

Exercise 4. Explain the etymology of the following words.

Sputnik, kindergarten, opera, piano, potato, tomato, droshky, tzar, violin, coffee, cocoa, colonel, alarm, cargo, blitzkrieg, steppe, komsomol, banana, balalaika.

Exercise 5. Think of 10-15 examples of Russian borrowings in English and English borrowings in Russian.

Exercise 6. Explain the etymology of the following words. Write them out in 3 columns: a) fully assimilated words; b) partially assimilated words; c) unassimilated words. Explain the reasons of your choice

Pen, hors d'oeuvre, ballet, beet, butter, skin, take, cup, police, distance, monk, garage, phenomenon, wine, large, justice, lesson, criterion, nice, coup d'etat, sequence, gay, port, river, loose, autumn, low, uncle, law, convenient, lunar, experiment skirt, bishop, regime, eau-de-Cologne.

Exercise 7. Study the following etymological doublets. Compare their meanings and explain why they are called “etymological doublets”.

1. captain-chieftain, canal-channel, cart-chart.

2. shirt-skirt, shriek-screech, shrew-screw.

3. gaol-jail, corpse-corps, travel-travail.

Shadow-shade, off-of, dike-ditch.

Exercise 8. Classify the following borrowings according to the sphere of human activity they represent. What type of borrowings are they?

Television, progress, football, grapefruit, drama, philosophy, rugby, sputnik, tragedy, coca-cola, biology, medicine, atom, primadonna, ballet, cricket, hockey, chocolate, communism, democracy.

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