I dont understand my homework and am in desprite need of help...
Here are the directions:
Each of the English words in the left colum of the chart originally cam from an American Indian language. Use a dictionary to find the language from which each word came, its original form, and its original meaning. Then fill in the chart.
This is what is looks like:
English Word Origin and Original Form Original Meaning
1. raccoon
2. moccasin
3. woodchuck
4. chocolate
Can someone please help me because I have looked and looked for hours and I can't find anything. Thanks a bunch!!
2006-10-31 11:16:00 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
If you can't read the columns they say
English word
Origin and Original Form
Original Meaning
2006-10-31 11:17:43 · update #1
Etymology : the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
Any good dictionary will list the etymology of a word. You can look up each of the words you listed, and any other word, on the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary at
www.merriam-webster.com
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/raccoon
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moccasin
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woodchuck
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chocolate
2006-10-31 17:09:45 · answer #1 · answered by Kookiemon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, that is a tough one, if you are sincere, tell your teacher that you searched in the dictionary and you couldn't find what was expected, and would the teacher please help you, which dictionary did they use, etc. BTW, did you try any online dictionaries? Yahoo References have a lot of good resources
2006-10-31 11:26:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the only site I could find. Hope it helps a little bit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Native_American_origin
2006-10-31 11:38:56 · answer #3 · answered by ♥cinnamonmj♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are literally thousands......but the majority have had their spellings changed to be more phonetic. One example that springs to mind is canoe.
2016-05-22 21:33:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋