Blog Post #5 - Practicing Etymology and Morphology

For this post, you get to choose the words you will use!  Please choose 5 of your favorite multi-syllable (multi-morpheme) words and do the following:

1. For each word, look up the etymology.  There are links to many etymology websites below in this blog.  Give the word's origin, original meaning, and any other information about its history and usage.
2. For each word, discuss the style of word formation used to create it
3. For each word, break it down into morphemes and explain what each morpheme is.

Example:
word: fantabulous

etymology: this word is a combination of the words "fantastic" and "fabulous," first seen in 1959.  Fantastic comes from the root word fantasy or phantasm, meaning in the mind. Fabulous comes from fabula (fable) meaning imaginary or mythical.

word formation: this word is a BLEND of the two words ("fantastic" and "fabulous")

morphemes: fanta-                    -bul                                   -ous
                   (stem)                   (partial stem)                    (suffix)
                   free/lexical             bound/lexical                    bound/derivational
                  (from fantasy)         (from the end of fable)     (to create an adj. from a noun)

**This is due before class on Thursday, October 20**