New Word-Analysis / Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words

by William Swinton

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WORD-ANALYSIS.

PART I.—INTRODUCTION.

I.—ELEMENTS OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY.

1. Etymology[²] is the study which treats of the derivation of words,—that is, of their structure and history.

2. English etymology, or word-analysis, treats of the derivation of English words.

3. The vocabulary[³] of a language is the whole body of words in that language. Hence the English vocabulary consists of all the words in the English language.