Blog Post #5

1.  Word: Glasses

     Etymology: "spectacles," 1660s, from plural of glass.
    
     Word Formation: borrowed word

     Morphemes: glass-                -es
                         (root)              (suffix)
                   free/lexical      Bound/derivational

2.  Word: Baseball
    
     Etymology: 1845, Amer.Eng., from base (n.) + ball. Earlier references, e.g. in Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey," refer to the game of "rounders," of which baseball is a more elaborate variety. Legendarily invented 1839 by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, N.Y. Base was used for "start or finish line of a race" from 1690s; and the sense of "safe spot" found in modern children's game of tag can be traced to 14c. The sense in baseball is from 1868. Get to first base "make a start" (1938) is a figurative use from the game.

     Word Formation: Compound word

     Morphemes: base-     -ball
                  free/lexical    free/lexical

3.   Word: Detective
    
     Etymology: 1850, short for detective police, from detective (adj.), 1843.

     Morphemes: Detect-               -ive
                        free/lexical     bound/derivational

4.   Word: Communication

     Etymology: late 14c., from O.Fr. comunicacion (14c., Mod.Fr. communication), from L. communicationem (nom. communicatio), noun of action from communicare "to share, divide out; communicate, impart, inform; join, unite, participate in," lit. "to make common," from communis.

     Word Formation: Borrowed word

     Morphemes: communicat-            -ion
                         (root)                      (suffix)
                       free/lexical          bound/derivational

5.   Word: Depression

     Etymology: late 14c. as a term in astronomy, from O.Fr. depression (14c.) or directly from L. depressionem (nom. depressio), noun of action from pp. stem of deprimere "to press down, depress" (see depress). Attested from 1650s in the literal sense; meaning "dejection, depression of spirits" is from early 15c. (as a clinical term in psychology, from 1905); meteorological sense is from 1881 (in reference to barometric pressure); meaning "a lowering or reduction in economic activity" was in use by 1826; given a specific application (with capital D-) by 1934 to the one that began worldwide in 1929. For "melancholy, depression" an O.E. word was grevoushede.

     Word Formation: borrowed word

     Morphemes: depress-              -ion
                         (root)                 (suffix)
                     free/lexical       bound/derivational