New Word-Analysis

New Word-Analysis, by William
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Title: New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English
Derivative Words
Author: William Swinton
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NEW WORD-ANALYSIS:
OR,

SCHOOL ETYMOLOGY OF ENGLISH DERIVATIVE WORDS.
WITH PRACTICAL EXERCISES
IN
SPELLING, ANALYZING, DEFINING, SYNONYMS, AND THE
USE OF WORDS.
BY WILLIAM SWINTON,
GOLD MEDALIST FOR TEXT-BOOKS, PARIS EXPOSITION, 1878;
AND AUTHOR OF "SWINTON'S GEOGRAPHIES," "OUTLINES
OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY," "LANGUAGE SERIES," ETC.
NEW YORK ·:· CINCINNATI ·:· CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
Copyright, 1879,
BY WILLIAM SWINTON

PREFACE.
The present text-book is a new-modeling and rewriting of Swinton's
Word-Analysis, first published in 1871. It has grown out of a large
amount of testimony to the effect that the older book, while valuable as
a manual of methods, in the hands of teachers, is deficient in
practice-work for pupils.
This testimony dictated a double procedure: first, to retain the old
methods; secondly, to add an adequate amount of new matter.
Accordingly, in the present manual, the few Latin roots and derivatives,
with the exercises thereon, have been retained--under "

Part II.: The Latin
Element"--as simply a method of study.[1] There have then been added,
in "Division II.: Abbreviated Latin Derivatives," no fewer than two
hundred and twenty Latin root-words with their most important English
offshoots. In order to concentrate into the limited available space so
large an amount of new matter, it was requisite to devise a novel mode
of indicating the English derivatives. What this mode is, teachers will
see in the section, pages 50-104. The author trusts that it will prove
well suited to class-room work, and in many other ways interesting and
valuable: should it not, a good deal of labor, both of the lamp and of the
file, will have been misplaced.
To one matter of detail in connection with the Latin and Greek
derivatives, the author wishes to call special attention: the Latin and the
Greek roots are, as key-words, given in this book in the form of the
present infinitive,--the present indicative and the supine being, of
course, added. For this there is one sufficient justification, to wit: that
the present infinitive is the form in which a Latin or a Greek root is
always given in Webster and other received lexicographic authorities. It
is a curious fact, that, in all the school etymologies, the present
indicative should have been given as the root, and is explicable only
from the accident that it is the key-form in the Latin dictionaries. The
change into conformity with our English dictionaries needs no defense,
and will probably hereafter be imitated by all authors of school
etymologies.
In this compilation the author has followed, in the main, the last edition
of Webster's Unabridged, the etymologies in which carry the
authoritative sanction of Dr. Mahn; but reference has constantly been
had to the works of Wedgwood, Latham, and Haldeman, as also to the
"English Etymology" of Dr. James Douglass, to whom the author is
specially indebted in the Greek and Anglo-Saxon sections.
W.S.
NEW YORK, 1879.

CONTENTS.

PART I.
INTRODUCTION. PAGE
I. ELEMENTS OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY 1 II.
ETYMOLOGICAL CLASSES OF WORDS 5 III. PREFIXES AND
SUFFIXES 5 IV. RULES OF SPELLING USED IN FORMING
DERIVATIVE WORDS 6

PART II.
THE LATIN ELEMENT. I. LATIN PREFIXES 9 II. LATIN
SUFFIXES 12 III. DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF LATIN
DERIVATIVES 21 LATIN ROOTS AND ENGLISH DERIVATIVES
23 DIVISION I. METHOD OF STUDY 23 DIVISION II.
ABBREVIATED LATIN DERIVATIVES 50

PART III.
THE GREEK ELEMENT.
I. GREEK PREFIXES 105 II. GREEK ALPHABET 106 GREEK
ROOTS AND ENGLISH DERIVATIVES 107 DIVISION I.
PRINCIPAL GREEK ROOTS 107 DIVISION II. ADDITIONAL
GREEK ROOTS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES 120

PART IV.
THE ANGLO-SAXON ELEMENT. I. ANGLO-SAXON PREFIXES
125 II. ANGLO-SAXON SUFFIXES 125 ANGLO-SAXON ROOTS
AND ENGLISH DERIVATIVES 127 SPECIMENS OF
ANGLO-SAXON 132 SPECIMENS OF SEMI-SAXON AND EARLY
ENGLISH 135 ANGLO-SAXON ELEMENT IN MODERN
ENGLISH 136

PART V.
MISCELLANEOUS DERIVATIVES. I. WORDS DERIVED FROM
THE NAMES OF PERSONS 142 1. NOUNS 142 2. ADJECTIVES
144 II. WORDS DERIVED FROM THE NAMES OF PLACES 146 III.
ETYMOLOGY OF WORDS USED IN THE PRINCIPAL SCHOOL
STUDIES 149 1. TERMS IN GEOGRAPHY 149 2. TERMS IN
GRAMMAR 150 3. TERMS IN ARITHMETIC 154

WORD-ANALYSIS.


PART I.--INTRODUCTION.
I.--ELEMENTS OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY.
1. ETYMOLOGY[2] is