Etymology/Quiz

Etymology is an introductory lecture for the course on the elements of terminology.

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Quiz
{Etymology is the study of the history of the origin, change of form and meaning over time of { words (i) }
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{True or False, When a word enters a language of interest part of the knowledge gathered is in etymology. + TRUE - FALSE
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{A number of methods to study origins does not include which of the following? - philological research - dialectological data - the comparative method - the study of semantic change + witty wordplay
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{The study of place names, their origins, meanings, use and typology is called { toponymy (i) }
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{True or False, An ethnonym created by another group of people is called an anonym. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Which of the following is not necessarily onomatopoeia? - tic tac - chirp - cuckoo + zip code - bleat - weero
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{A popularly held but false belief about the origins of specific words, often originating in "common-sense" assumptions is called { false etymology (i) }
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{Yes or No, Knowledge in the field advances so rapidly that many of the etymologies in contemporary dictionaries are outdated. + Yes - No
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{Etymology is not to be confused with? - palaeography - semantics - word history - linguistics - word roots + entomology
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{A phrase constructed purposely such that an acronym can be formed to a specific desired word is called what. { backronym (i) }
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