Freeman and Freeman- U06a2

Freeman and Freeman exercises:

10 words and their etymologies:

1. ersatz- ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from German, literally ‘replacement.’
2. hurricane- ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Spanish huracán, probably from Taino hurakán ‘god of the storm.’
3. giraffe- ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from French girafe, Italian giraffa, or Spanish and Portuguese girafa, based on Arabic zarāfa. The animal was known in Europe in the medieval period, and isolated instances of names for it based on the Arabic are recorded in Middle English , when it was commonly called the camelopard
4. primrose- ORIGIN late Middle English : compare with Old French primerose and medieval Latin prima rosa, literally ‘first rose.’
5. Maw- ORIGIN Old English maga (in the sense [stomach] ), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maag and German Magen ‘stomach.’
6. Magazine- ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from French magasin, from Italian magazzino, from Arabic ma k zin, ma k zan ‘storehouse,’ from k azana ‘store up.’ The term originally meant [store] and was often used from the mid 17th cent. in the title of books providing information useful to particular groups of people, whence sense 1 (mid 18th cent.). Sense 3 , a contemporary specialization of the original meaning, gave rise to sense 2 in the mid 18th cent.
7. Garage- ORIGIN early 20th cent.: from French, from garer ‘to shelter.’
8. Serendipity- ORIGIN 1754: coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes “were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.”
9. Bedlam- ORIGIN late Middle English : early form of Bethlehem , referring to the hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem in London, used as an asylum for the insane.
10. DECORUM- ORIGIN mid 16th cent.(as a literary term, denoting suitability of style): from Latin, neuter of the adjective decorus ‘seemly.’

Spellings:

Phonetic Demand	Semantic Demand	Etymological demand
Woof	Infinite/infinity	Geist
Purr	Action/acting	Giraffe
Beep	Dieting/dietician	Fish
Sad		Rheumatism
Cod		Germ

Letter g:

/g/                              /j/

girl                            gin

go                              giraffe

gifted                       ginger

gastronomy           germ

gaff                           gee

geist                         german

ghost                        geanie

goad

goal

goat

guacamole

guava

gear

glee

geek

gurney

Most words that are pronounced /g/ have Germanic, Norse, or Scandinavian origins. /j/ words have French or Latin origins.