Sentence examples for word element from inspiring English sources

Etymology, the history of a word or word element, including its origins and derivation.

The earliest form of a word, or word element, must be ascertained, as well as all parallel and related forms.

2. Every sound of a given word, or word element, must be compared with the corresponding sound in the form (often called its etymon) from which it is derived.

After a black family bought a house on Ray's block, an unredeemed neighbor complained to him that "a certain element" was taking over, and the word "element" immediately entered our lexicon as an irresistibly sublime piece of swamp-think.

For example, Modern Standard Chinese tian 'sky, heaven, day' is a one-syllable word; ritou 'sun' is composed of ri 'sun, day,' a word element that cannot occur alone as a word, and the noun suffix tou; and hudie 'butterfly' consists of two syllables, each having no meaning in itself (this is a rare type of word formation).

The Southern languages have more monosyllabic words and word elements than the Northern ones.

Like French, Spanish, and Russian, English frequently forms scientific terms from Classical Greek word elements.

A particular source of technical neologisms in European languages has been the words and word elements of Latin and Greek.

Languages vary widely in the degree to which words can be analyzed into word elements, or morphemes.

The system of forming noun plurals, basically of German origin, is enriched by word elements of Hebrew origin.

A well-developed system of diminution uses word elements largely of German origin but on a Slavic grammatical model.