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Compared to English names that describe physical characteristics of animal bodies, Malaysian names tend to be rootwords of their own 🥰. And even if names do describe the animals, they're done in fascinating ways: reduplication, metaphors, affixation, etc.
malay names for our wildlife are absolutely beatiful. the orchid mantis is locally called belalang sentadu anggerik, the spotted wood owl is burung hantu carik kafan, the malayan weasel is pulasan tanah & the reticulated python is ular sawa batik. im loving the creativity here.
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Rather than learning a word of the week, why not learn a root of the week? One root can help students work out 20-30 other words in English!. All these words are related to "writing" and come from the Latin "scribere - to write" (scrip, scrib)✏️. #rootoftheweek #rootwords #vocab
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Out of 30,000 Tagálog rootwords, 10,000 are of Spanish origin. That's ⅓, with ⅔ being shared by other languages (Malayo-Polynesian, Chinese, etc.). Clearly, without Spanish, Tagálog is CRIPPLED. Yet others scoff at it and say, "It's just Spanish, it's no longer important".
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We love looking at prefix patterns as well as root patterns! ⭐️.expose, expect, extract and export all contain the prefix "ex" which means "out". What do these words mean?. #rootwords #prefixes #vocabulary #morphology
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The first root on Vocabulous is "port", which means "carry" and comes from the Latin "portare" = to carry. Words in English like import, export, transport, deport and report all come from this root!. #vocabulary #edutwitter #teamenglish #rootwords #Classicstwitter #literacy
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Happy New Year from @VocabulousUK! It's exactly a year since we joined Twitter and what a year it has been!. We'd love you to share or retweet as we want as many schools and students as possible to benefit from Vocabulous!. #rootwords #edtech #edutwitter @shinetrustuk
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