Etymology/Quiz

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Etymology is an introductory lecture for the course on the elements of terminology. This quiz covers the Wikiversity page as well as the Wikipedia page etymology. You are free to take it. Once you’ve read and studied these pages and the links contained within and listed under See also, you should have adequate background to take the quiz. Enjoy!

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1. Etymology is the study of the history of the origin, change of form and meaning over time of what

2. True or False, When a word enters a language of interest part of the knowledge gathered is in etymology.

	TRUE
	FALSE

3. A number of methods to study origins does not include which of the following?

	philological research
	dialectological data
	the comparative method
	the study of semantic change
	witty wordplay

4. The study of place names, their origins, meanings, use and typology is called

5. True or False, An ethnonym created by another group of people is called an anonym.

	TRUE
	FALSE

6. Which of the following is not necessarily onomatopoeia?

	tic tac
	chirp
	cuckoo
	zip code
	bleat
	weero

7. A popularly held but false belief about the origins of specific words, often originating in "common-sense" assumptions is called

8. True or False, Knowledge in the field advances so rapidly that many of the etymologies in contemporary dictionaries are outdated.

	TRUE
	FALSE

9. Etymology is not to be confused with?

	palaeography
	semantics
	word history
	linguistics
	word roots
	entomology

10. A phrase constructed purposely such that an acronym can be formed to a specific desired word is called what.

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