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WORD-STOCK.
1. The origin of English words
2. What can be borrowed?
3. Classification of borrowings
according to the degree of
assimilation
According to their origin
English words may be
subdivided into two main sets.
The elements of one are native
words, the elements of the
other are borrowed words.
A native word is a word which
belongs to the original English
word stock, as known from the
earliest available manuscripts of
the Old English period.
A borrowed word or a borrowing
is a word taken over from
another language and modified
in phonemic shape, spelling,
paradigm or meaning according
to the standards of the English
language.
WHAT CAN BE BORROWED?
Only words or some other
elements of the language as
well?
If so what are these elements?
Translation loans (e.g., wall-
newspaper стенгазета).
Semantic loans
(e.g., Eng. Pioneer, meaning
explorer, one who is among the
first, under the influence of Russ.
Пионер got the meaning “a
member of Pioneer’s
Organization»).
Classification of borrowings according to the
degree of assimilation
. Completely assimilated loan words from Lat.: cheese,
I
wine; from Scand.: fellow, gate, want; from Fr.: chair, face.
• through written
speech
Direct
Indirect
ASSIMILATION OF BORROWINGS