Description
Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. To study the etymological roots of words provides an insight into more than merely the definitions of words but the explanations of what words meant and how they were recorded 600 to 2,000 years ago. This lesson/resources provides interactives of prefixes and suffixes and the respective etymological meaning. (bi=two, tri=three, oct=eight, hydro=water, micro=small, tele=across a distance, phone=communicate, graph=written/draw, ology=study of, dict=to say).
