Topic > Etymology - 2810

IntroductionThe objective of this essay is to observe etymology and etymological loanwords from other languages. This article will cover many loanwords from other languages ​​such as Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, and others. Etymology studies the origin and history of words, their form and meaning. More specifically, “word etymology means the origin of a particular word.” Etymology is the study of the word, its history, its meanings, and how its meaning and form change over time. Etymology then tells the origin of the word, where it comes from, what it means in the English language and what it means in the language it originally belonged to, as well as the meaning it has in both languages. Most modern English words are loanwords from other languages, especially Latin and Greek. In my article I also chose to examine the etymology of the names of fruits and mammals. Methods The study adopted discourse analysis with a qualitative method which allowed the researcher to better understand the topic proposed in this article. There are some methods available with the help of where you can study the history of words. Among these, the philological method, the dialectological method, the comparative method and semantic change should be mentioned. Each of these methods has its own meaning; however we chose the comparative method to observe the topic of this article. With the help of the comparative method, etymologists discover which words come from the language of the ancestors and which were borrowed from another language. That is why the comparative method will be more useful to us because o...... middle of paper ......living on the European continent, European scientists noticed the inaccuracy of these ancient descriptions, which often erroneously reported that the chimpanzees had horns and hooves. The first of these early transcontinental chimpanzees came from Angola and was presented as a gift to the Prince of Orange in 1640, followed by some of his siblings in subsequent years. Scientists who examined these rare specimens were baffled and described these early chimpanzees as "pygmies" and noted the animals' distinct similarities to humans. The next two decades would see a number of the creatures imported into Europe, mainly acquired by various zoos as visitor entertainment. " http://iberianature.com/britainnature/miscellaneous/etymology-of-mammal-names-in-englis