Etymology and Morphology

Etymology is the history of a word or phrase and traces its developments and relationships. Morphology is the science and the study of word-formation. In this section, we will discover more about related topics:

Word formation processes are used to create new words in the English language in many different ways.
Further into the section, we will uncover the mystery of Loan Words vs. Calque. Loan words are words that come from a language and are used in another language. Calque are words that are translated into another language.
Compounding and blending are another lesson. They are ways to create words by attaching two different words or mixing two different words.
Affixes are a group of letters that are attached to the beginning (prefix) or to the end (suffix) of a word.
Abbreviations are when phrases or words are shortened and are used to save time and space while writing or reading something.