derivational

Meanings

• Noun

  The process of forming new words by modifying existing words, typically by adding a prefix or suffix.

  - "The word 'happy' can be derived from the adjective 'hap' meaning fortunate."
  - "The suffix '-able' can be added to the base word 'enable' to form the word 'enableable'."

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Variants

List of all variants of derivational that leads to same result
derivation , derivational , derivationally , derivations

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Etymology

origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

The word 'derivational' comes from the Latin word 'derivare', which means 'to draw off'. In linguistics, derivational morphology refers to the process of creating new words by modifying existing words.

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Trivia

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1. The longest English word formed by adding affixes to a base word is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis', which means a type of lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica particles.

2. The English language has approximately 170,000 words, but it's estimated that there are around one million different word forms.

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Related Concepts

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1. Morphology: The study of the forms and structures of words and their relationship to meaning.

2. Affixes: Prefixes and suffixes are the most common types of affixes used in derivational morphology.

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Culture

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Derivational words have played an important role in literature and language evolution. For instance, Shakespeare created many new words by using derivational morphology.

How to Memorize "derivational"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize the process of adding a prefix or suffix to a base word.
   - Imagine how a new word is formed by modifying an existing word.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the meaning of the base word with the new meaning of the derived word.
   - Think of a base word and its derived form as related concepts.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the acronym 'PANDAS' to remember the different types of affixes: Prefixes, Affixes that change the meaning of a word, Naming affixes, Derivational affixes, and Suffixes.

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