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  2. Structured word inquiry - Wikipedia

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    Structured Word Inquiry (SWI) is a pedagogical technique that involves the scientific investigation of the spelling of words. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] SWI emphasizes the scientific exploration of word structure through morphology , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] etymology , related words, and phonology .

  3. Giacomo Casanova - Wikipedia

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    Venice in the 1730s. Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725 to actress Zanetta Farussi, wife of actor and dancer Gaetano Casanova.Giacomo was the first of six children, followed by Francesco Giuseppe (1727–1803), Giovanni Battista (1730–1795), Faustina Maddalena (1731–1736), Maria Maddalena Antonia Stella (1732–1800), and Gaetano Alvise (1734–1783).

  4. Proto-Indo-European root - Wikipedia

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    Words with zero suffix are termed root verbs and root nouns. An example is *h₁és-mi / *h₁és-∅-mi '[I] am'. [3] Beyond this basic structure, there is the nasal infix which functions as a present tense marker, and reduplication, a prefix with a number of grammatical and derivational functions. [4]

  5. Indo-European ablaut - Wikipedia

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    The phenomenon of Indo-European ablaut was first recorded by Sanskrit grammarians in the later Vedic period (roughly 8th century BCE), and was codified by Pāṇini in his Aṣṭādhyāyī (4th century BCE), where the terms guṇa and vṛddhi were used to describe the phenomena now known respectively as the full grade and lengthened grade.

  6. Word formation - Wikipedia

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    the word televise is a back-formation of television; The process is motivated by analogy: edit is to editor as act is to actor. This process leads to a lot of denominal verbs. The productivity of back-formation is limited, with the most productive forms of back-formation being hypocoristics. [5]

  7. Proto-Indo-European phonology - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, athematic nouns and verbs usually had mobile accent, with varied between strong forms, with root accent and full grade in the root (e.g. the singular active of verbs, and the nominative and accusative of nouns), and weak forms, with ending accent and zero grade in the root (e.g. the plural active and all forms of the middle ...

  8. Lexicology - Wikipedia

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    A word is the smallest meaningful unit of a language that can stand on its own, and is made up of small components called morphemes and even smaller elements known as phonemes, or distinguishing sounds. Lexicology examines every feature of a word – including formation, spelling, origin, usage, and definition. [1]

  9. Neoclassical compound - Wikipedia

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    Neoclassical compounds represent a significant source of Neo-Latin vocabulary. Moreover, since these words are composed from classical languages whose prestige is or was respected throughout the Western European culture, these words typically appear in many different languages.