LING150/University of Oregon

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1.

Word	Original Prefix	Assimilation
a. impossible	in-	Partial - Nasal
b. irrelevant	in-	Total
c. commit	con-	Partial - Nasal
d. corrupt	con-	Total
e. embed	en-	Partial - Nasal
f. illegal	in-	Total
g. effect	ex-	Total
h. immemorial	in-	Partial - Nasal
i. occlude	ob-	Total
j. infect	in-	NONE
k. annotate	ad-	Total
l. assimilate	ad-	Total
m. suffer	sub-	Total
n. opposition	ob-	Partial - Voicing
o. submit	sub-	NONE

7. Here are some possible answers; yours may differ somewhat. A few of them use roots which we haven't studied yet.

a. exlatral	f. dicharchy
b. homicephalic	g. centagonal
c. heterogenuous	h. tritheic (with vowel deletion)
d. hexacephalic (notice that this word uses two Greek roots, which may sound better than using the Latin root sex)	i.triliteral
e. vigennial	j. bipedal

8.

semester comes from sex 'six' + mentris 'month'

9.

pentateuch	scroll cases (or books)
decalogue	words (or pronouncements)
deuteronomy	laws