Blog Post #5 - Practicing Etymology and Morphology

1)WORD: Whimsical 

ETYMOLOGY:  first seen in 1645, coming from the word whimsy which in fact originated in 1595.

WORD FORMATION: this is a borrowed word .

MORPHEMES: Whim-      -sical 

                          (root)         (suffix) 

                      free/lexical    bound/derivational 

2) WORD: Oozing 

ETYMOLOGY: first seen before 1000, coming from the old French word wase;Middle English word wose.

WORD FORMATION:  this is a borrowed word.

MORPHEMES: Ooz-           -ing
                          (stem)         (suffix)
                        free/lexical    bound/inflectional

3)WORD: Abosfuckinglutely    

ETYMOLOGY: first seen in the first episode of Sex & the City; a combination of "absolutely" and "fuck yeah".

WORD FORMATION: this word is a  Pseudo-infixation. 

MORPHEMES: Abso-         Fucking-        -Lutely 
                         (root)           (stem)              (suffix)
                     free/lexical     free/lexical       bound/inflectional  

4) WORD: Unreliable

ETYMOLOGY: first seen in 1830, coming from the word reliable.

WORD FORMATION: this is a borrowed word.

MORPHEMES: Un-                     reli                     -able
                        (prefix)           (partial stem)             (suffix)
              bound/derivational    bound/lexical      bound/derivational

5)WORD: Irresistible

ETYMOLOGY:  first seen in the 1580's, coming from the word resist. 

WORD FORMATION: this is a  borrowed word.

MORPHEMES: Ir-                         resist-                  -able
                        (prefix)                   (stem)                  (suffix) 
                  bound/derivational      free/lexical         bound/derivational