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i would like to know if the above words come from Old English, French, or Greekand how can we tell which language they come from? what are the clues to tell us?

2006-10-09 12:08:20 · 4 answers · asked by Lynn M 1 in Education & Reference Primary & Secondary Education

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fridget:from obsolete and dialectal fidge, to move restlessly, perhaps from Middle English fiken, of Scandinavian origin.
garage:the word probably did not exist before the 19th century and certainly not before the 18th; possibly the thing itself did not exist before the end of the 19th century. Our word is a direct borrowing of French garage, which is first recorded in 1802 in the sense “place where one docks.” The verb garer, from which garage was derived, originally meant “to put merchandise under shelter,” then “to moor a boat,” and then “to put a vehicle into a place for safekeeping,” that is, a garage, a sense first recorded in French in 1901. English almost immediately borrowed this French word, the first instance being found in 1902.
chronic:from Greek,chronos means time in Greek
chauffeur:from Old French chaufer

2006-10-10 12:27:05 · answer #1 · answered by Semiramis 4 · 0 0

garage and chauffeur both come from French
try etymologyonline.com

2006-10-10 11:44:13 · answer #2 · answered by frauholzer 5 · 0 0

they are french, possibly latin based

if you check them out in a good dictionary Websters or Oxford and cambridge, they say where the word originates.

2006-10-09 12:11:18 · answer #3 · answered by marc k 2 · 0 0

I have no clue

2006-10-09 12:10:01 · answer #4 · answered by delta s 4 · 0 1

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