Premere- To press
Pregnant,Press,Pressure,Print;Appressed,Compress,Depress,Express,Impress,Imprint,Oppress,Repress,Reprimand,Suppress. These are words derived from the Latin verb premere which means to press. Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Many of our words are derived from Latin via French, here are some examples look at the words: aggregate, congregate, egregious, gregarious, segregate. These words are coming from the Latin word grex meaning herd,flock.The Greek word that is similar to this word is ageirein to assemble,from which we... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
The relationship
To give you an idea of the relationship between these languages consider these words we use everyday affable, fate,infant, preface. They are derived from the Latin fari to speak, look at the definitions to see where they could all convey a certain aspect of this Latin verb. This Latin verb is... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Learning other Indo-European languages is easy
The Indo-European languages having a common origin makes it rather easy for us to learn sister languages within the group.English is a member of Germanic,the other members are Dutch,German, Norwegian,Danish,Swedish and Icelandic. The last four form one group descended from Old Norse,the language of... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, May 14, 2007
The English Language
The English language is a member of a super family of languages called Indo-European.It is called that because the speakers of these languages stretch from India through the Western part of Asia to Europe.These languages are also spoken elsewhere because of the colonization by Europeans of other... Sign in to see full entry.