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