#morphememonday: April 6, 2020

by | Apr 6, 2020 | Morpheme Mondays

Happy #morphememonday everyone!

I hope everyone is staying safe in this time of ‘social distancing’. It is challenging for everyone in this time of uncertainty.

With schools and libraries shutting their door for the foreseeable future in a measure to keep everyone as safe as possible.

This increased time at home can leave one wondering what to do. Learning more about the English language, it’s history, etymology, and morphology can be quite interesting and cause you to think about words and the way they are represented by graphemes.

Without further ado, here are this week’s morphemes:

Definition: front, before
Origin: Old English
Examples: foreclosure, forefather, foresight, foreword, forearm

<fore> + <head> -> forehead
<fore> + <tell> -> foretell
<fore> + <run> + <er> -> forerunner
<fore> + <thought> -> forethought

  • This prefix is one that I would save for teaching in context with older students.

 

Definition: straight, rule, right
Origin: Latin
Examples: rectify, correctiveness, regal, incorrigible, rigid

<di> + <rect> -> direct
<rect> + <angle> -> rectangle
<ir> + <reg> + <u> + <lar> -> irregular
<in> + <cor> + <rect> -> incorrect
<reg> + <ion> -> region

  • This root is one that does not need to be explicitly taught until students have a firmer foundation in other morphemes.

  • If as an educator, you make it common practice to teach morphemes in context, <rect> could be talked about in geometry when discussing rectangles

 

Definition: one who, quality or state, of being
Origin: Latin
Examples: client, different, evident, magnificent, correspondent

<ex> + <cell> + <ent> -> excellent
<per> + <sist> + <ent> -> persistent
<confide> + <ent> -> confident
<absorb> + <ent> -> absorbent
<pre> + <side> + <ent> -> president

  • This suffix is one that can be taught explicitly to morphologically experienced students

  • It could also be discussed in context with students as they begin to see more words containing it in Social Studies or History classes.

 

Last time, on March 30, 2020 the morphemes were the prefix <pre>, the root <graph> and the suffix <ing>.

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