Key To 100,000 WordsDr. James I. Brown of the University of Minnesota claims that the fourteen words below hold the key to about 100,000 words. If so, it might be a good idea to study and learn by heart the meaning of these fourteen words. They contain twenty prefixes and fourteen roots:
aspect a(d) + spect (spicio=look) way of looking at sth detain de + tain (teneo=hold) hold away from epilogue epi + logos (=speech) upon the end of speech indisposed in + dis + pos (pono=put) put wrong insist in + sist (insisto=persist) persist in, go on with intermittent inter + mitt (mitto=send) sent between mistranscribe mis + tran + scrib (scribo=write) wrongly written over monograph mono + graph (=writing) one (written) subject nonextended non + ex + tend (teneo=hold) not held out offer o(b) + fer (fero=carry) bring away to oversufficient over + sub + fic (facio=make) made more than enough precept pre + cept (capio=take) a taking over, a teaching reproduction re + pro +duct (duco=lead) lead forward (=make) again uncomplicated un + com + plic (plico=fold) not put together with sth See here for the meaning of other prefixes and roots in: Latin and Greek
/October 2000
Erik Moldrup