English Vocabulary and Etymology week1

Topic: introduction & syllabus

"Master your life on a bigger scale"-quoted from T. Sara Sun

• Etymology- is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. By comparative method, linguists can make inferences about their shared parent language and its vocabulary. In this way, word roots have been found that can be traced all the way back to the origin of, for instance, the Indo-European language family.

• Cupid&psyche-"psyche" often refers to the meaning "mind,spirit"or "butterfly".
  
  It concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche (/ˈsaɪkiː/, Greek: Ψυχή, "Soul" or "Breath of Life") and Cupid (Latin Cupido, "Desire") or Amor ("Love", Greek Eros ’′Ερως), and their ultimate union in a sacred marriage.

• Learning the history of English in 10 minutes      

• The Story Of English

English-the grammar (including word order) was mostly Anglo-Saxon,and a lot of the words were French.

• English prefixes,roots,suffixes

　　a."prefix", which changes the meaning dramatically.("字首",會戲劇化的改變整個辭義,也就是說,放開頭不一定就是"字首")

　   b."Suffix"→ part of speech(強調位置只能放這)－ a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) which have similar grammatical properties.

For example, adverb is used near a verb.

 　c.examples

　　ori-: get started; beginning

　　origin

　　originate

　　de-, di-: down(↓); away from(→)

　　depreciate

　　diversity

　　divorce

　　divide

　　uni-: one

　　university

　　-meter:丈量

　　kilometer(*km2 read "square kilometer")

　　thermometer

　　hydrometer

　　diameter