Derivation

E.g. husband – hus-bond-a;

Origin: late Old English (in the senses 'male head

of a household' and 'manager, steward'), from Old

Norse húsbóndi 'master of a house,' from hús 'house’

bóndi 'occupier and tiller of the soil. Another

interpretation is linked with “bound with a house”, “house/family owner”.

Example of the structure change

• Admiral - a commander of a fleet or naval squadron, or a naval officer of very high rank;
• Origin: Middle English (denoting an emir or Saracen commander):
• From Old French amiral, admirail, via medieval Latin
• From Arabic ῾amīr 'commander' (from ῾amara 'to command’).
• The ending -al was from Arabic -al- in the sense 'of the' used in forming titles (e.g., ῾amīr-al-'umarā 'ruler of rulers'), later assimilated to the familiar Latinate suffix –al;
• Amir-al > admirare (L.) > admiral

One of the recent neologisms

• Petance OR Pettance
• The word is a combination of PET and ROMANCE. ROMANCE doesn’t always mean coupling romance, but can mean love or the subject of love, beauty, pageantry and the like.
• An obsession with pets or animals–specif. that gets in the way of priorities and rational thinking or decision making.
• A love for pets or animals that is more than love for people.
• After their kids left home, they developed a PETANCE with strays and it became a hoard and utter filthiness.

WORD FORMATION AND WORD DERIVATION

• Word-derivation is a word-formation process by which a new word is built from a stem – usually through the addition of an affix – that changes the word class and / or basic meaning of the word:
• Patterns of word derivation:
• N + Suf > Adj: price + -less > priceless;
• Adj + Suf > N: dark + - ness > darkness;
• V + Suf > N: generate + -tion > generation;
• Adj + Suf > Adv: sure + -ly > surely, etc.