contest
contest: an event in which people compete.
Meaning?
”Stanley really thought his story would win the writing contest." -from Stanley and the Wild Words
contest: call to witness
Morphological Relatives: Meet the family…
detest: "execrate, hate, dislike intensely," also "to curse, to call God to witness and abhor”
Etymology: con + test con Latin testis “with, together” “witness”
protest: bear witness publicly
Source: Online Etymology Dictionary
Relatives?
intestate: without a duly witnessed will testimony: evidence of a witness
Morphological relatives will share the same base element and meaning.
contest à con + test
Structure?
A grapheme is a written symbol (letter or string of letters) One of its jobs may be to represent a sound (phoneme). What phoneme, if any, does each grapheme represent?
prefix base element
What phoneme, if any, does each represent?grapheme
Say the word, “contest.” How many phonemes do you hear?
Pronunciation?
c o n bt e s t
What was surprising about the“contest” investigation?
Explain what the following quote mean to you:
Word Quest completed! Whatnew questions do you have?
“Life is not a contest.”popularity
A. D. Parker
question
"Stanley squeezed between a slumbering SLOTH and a curious QUESTION."from Stanley and the Wild Words
question: eager to know or learn.
Meaning?
Source: Online Etymology Dictionary
Morphological Relatives?
Relatives?
Meet the family…
quest: seek question: ask questions: questioner: questioning: request: asking for something, a seeking back
Morphological relatives will share the same base element and meaning.
Etymology? quest + ion Latin quaere “seek, ask”
question à quest + ion
Structure?
How many phonemes do you hear when you say, “quest”?
Note:represent?Aphoneme, like <qu>, can consist of more than one phone (sound) .
Pronunciation?
A grapheme is a written symbol (letter or string of letters) . One of its jobs may be to represent a sound (phoneme). What phoneme, if any, does each grapheme
Word Quest completed! What new questions do you Whathave? was surprising about the Explaininvestigation?“question”whatthefollowing quote mean to you:
“Life’s persistentmostand urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
curious
curious: eager to know or learn.
Meaning?
"Stanley squeezed between a slumbering SLOTH and a curious QUESTION."from Stanley and the Wild Words
Meet the family…
Source: Online Etymology Dictionary
curious: giving attention to curiously: curiosity: incurious: cure: heal by attention or care accurate: exact due to sufficient care secure: safe and free from care
Etymology?
Morphological relatives will share the same base element and meaning.
cure + i + ous Latin cura
“care, attention”
Morphological Relatives?
curate: a priest taking care of his congregation; taking care of a collection
Relatives?
Structure?
curious à cure/ + i + ous
units
Say “cure.” How many phonemes do you hear? What job do you think the <e> grapheme has in <cure>?
A grapheme is a written symbol (letter or string of letters) . One of its jobs may be to represent a sound (phoneme).
Pronunciation?
Explain what the following quote means to you:
Word Quest completed! What new questions do you surprising about the investigation?“curious”
“Be curious, not judgmental.”
Whathave?was
Walt Whitman
belligerent
Meaning?
belligerent: hostile and aggressive.
-from Stanley and the Wild Words
"Stanley sidestepped to avoid BELLIGERENT."
rebels: rebellious: rebellion: Morphological relatives will share the same base element and meaning.
Source: Online Etymology Dictionary
Morphological Relatives
belligerence:
bell + i + gere + ent Latin bellum gerere “war” ”bear, carry”
rebel: to make war against someone oppressive
Meet the family…
Relatives?
belligerent: carrying on in a warlike manner
Etymology?
Structure?
Pronunciation?
It can be interesting to note the stressed syllables within a word and across a morphological family.
“As a rough rule of thumb,I would say the smallerthe pond, the morebelligerent the fish.”
-Craig Brown
Explain what the following quote means to you:
Word Quest completed!What new questions doyou Whathave?was surprisingabout the investigation?“belligerent”
magical
Meaning?
”Questions about words will lead you to magical places."
-from Stanley and the Wild Words
magical: related to magic; delightful.
Relatives?
Meet the family… magical: magic: magician:
Morphological relatives will share the same base element and meaning.
Old Persian magush “power”
mage + ic + al
Source: Online Etymology Dictionary
Etymology?
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Morphological Relatives?
Structure?
magical à mage/ + ic + al
It can be interesting to investigate how a grapheme may be represented by different phonemes across a word family.
A grapheme is a written symbol (letter or string of letters) . One of its jobs may be to represent a sound (phoneme).
Say the following words: magic, magical, magician. What phoneme does the grapheme <c> represent in each word?
Pronunciation?
Word Quest completed! What new questions do you have?
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
Bertrand Russell
What was surprising about the “magical” investigation?
Explain what the following quote means to you: