Timeline for How to find words which are related morphologically?
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| Nov 12, 2013 at 17:06 | vote | accept | Bohoo | ||
| Nov 11, 2013 at 5:13 | comment | added | Kris | One pitfall: medick US, medic [ˈmɛdɪk] n (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any small leguminous plant of the genus Medicago, such as black medick or sickle medick, having yellow or purple flowers and trifoliate leaves [from Latin mēdica, from Greek mēdikē (poa) Median (grass), a type of clover] (TFD) | |
| Nov 11, 2013 at 5:10 | comment | added | Kris | It's not so much lexical as it really is derivational-morphological. morewords.com/starts-with/med vs. morewords.com/starts-with/medic | |
| Nov 10, 2013 at 19:23 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 10, 2013 at 18:42 | comment | added | Bohoo | Check imaginative . The words imagination or imagine are not mentioned anywhere. Or search for medicine in Merriam-Webster College. Medical is not mentioned. But you are right that with detective work I can gather most of the information. I guess. | |
| Nov 10, 2013 at 18:29 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | In the age of high technology, and the frenzy to have all the answers within the click of a mouse; this has meant that the humble reference book is losing favour and popularity among learners. But this is a mistake, open a dictionary and on one page there will be a wealth of other information, details, expressions, curiosities, and the like which you will miss out by studying exclusively online. Your eye will glance down the page and spot something interesting which might never have occurred with a digital format. | |
| Nov 10, 2013 at 18:19 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | This will probably be true for speakers of non-Romance languages and it's a valid point. But a decent monolingual dictionary under imaginative will provide the adverbial expression, imaginatively; the adjective form, imaginative; idiomatic expressions such as "a figment of sb's imagination" ---> see figment; the mind/imagination boggles ---> see boggle; not by any stretch of the imagination ---> see stretch And nothing stops you from reading the words that precede and follow, imagination. | |
| Nov 10, 2013 at 18:13 | comment | added | Bohoo | Just to clarify myself: If an ESL know what imaginative means, he does not necessarily know that the word is derived from image, imagine, etc. | |
| Nov 10, 2013 at 18:03 | comment | added | Bohoo | Ok, but as an ESL, suppose you know the word imaginative, and don't know that the the root is imag, so you will not search for imagin*. The closest I have found is this: learnenglish.org.uk/wff . If I will not find exactly what I want I will except your answer. | |
| Nov 10, 2013 at 15:40 | history | answered | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |