Fully assimilated,
Partially assimilated,
Unassimilated.
Act, aim, arm, art, autumn, ball, bank, baron, beauty, beef, bon mot, branch, brilliant, butcher, capital, captain, chauffeur, city, close, colleague, command, commence, coup d'etat, count, courage, crime, cry, decide, degree, delight, emperor, employee, etiquette, exposure, face, fatigue, finance, foyer, fruit, garage, gazette, genre, honour, hour, large, legal, leisure, machine, madam, magazine, marine, measure, minister, monsieur, mutton, naive, nation, nice, office, pass, pleasure, poet, restore.
Exercise 3. Arrange the following French borrowings into:
law terms,
military terms,
religious terms,
cookery terms,
art terms,
medical terms.
Accuse, admiral, army, arrest, art, bacon, banner, battle, bible, boil, cadet, clergy, colour, conquest, court, defence, dinner, fatigue, fortress, fruit, genre, gout, image, jelly, judge, ice, malady, music, mutton, ornament, pain, paradise, pastry, pray, pulse, remedy, saint, sausage, siege, soldier, song, up, surgeon, talent, taste, toast, tragedy, veal, vinegar, war.
Exercise 4. Arrange the following French borrowings into groups of words denoting:
names of professions,
state and government notions,
terms of architecture,
things of everyday life.
Air, arch, architect, barber, butcher, cabinet, castle, ceiling, clock, column, coat, dress, face, fashion, flower, frock, gown, minister, office, painter, palace, parliament, place, porch, public, state, table, tailor, towel, tower, vase.
Exercise 1. Mind the following translation-loans. State the language they came from.
Blitzkrieg, bon mot, collective farm, coup d'etat, enfant terrible, kindergarten, leitmotiv, persona grata, prima donne swan-song, tete-a-tete.
Exercise 2. a) State the origin of the following translation loans, b) Translate them into Ukrainian/Russian.
blue-stocking, the fair sex, Fatherland, fellow-traveller, first dancer, heel of Achilles, knight errant, lightning way, local colouring, the moment of truth, mother tongue, pen name, Procrustean bed, self-criticism, Sisyphean labour, a slip of the tongue, surplus value, swan song, sword of Damocles, thing-in-itself, vicious circle, wonder child, word combination, world-famous.
Exercise 1. Comment on etymological doublets. Explain the origin and formation of the following doublets.
Abbreviate - abridge; hospital - hostel, hotel;
cavalry - chivalry; goal-jail;
captain - chieftain; major - mayor;
artist - artiste; pauper - poor;
liquor - liqueur; senior - sir;
rout - route; canal - channel;
suit - suite; legal - loyal;
salon - saloon; skirt - shirt;
shade - shadow; nay - no. of- off;
Exercise 2. a) Compare the meaning of the following etymological doublets. State their origin, b) Translate the doublets into Ukrainian/Russian.
eatable - edible, cathedral - chair,
naked - nude, deacon - dean,
nine - noon; papyrus - paper;
bench - bank, chief- chef,
corn - grain, hostel - hotel,
lapel - label, saloon - salon,
name - noun, sergeant - servant,
ward — guard, suit — suite;
word - verb; camp - campus,
draw - drag, cross - crux,
hale - hail, inch - ounce,
shabby - scabby, street -stratum;
shirt - skirt, canal - channel,
shriek - screech; card - chart.
Exercise 3. State the origin of the following etymological doublets. Compare their meanings and explain why they are called etymological doublets.
captain - chief tan, canal - channel, cart - chart.
shirt - skirt, shriek - screech, shrew - screw.
gaol -jail, corpse - corps, travel - travail.
shadow - shade, off- of, dike - ditch.
Exercise 1. Comment on international words. Arrange the following International words into groups taking into account the sphere of life and man's activities they refer to:
scientific,
cultural,
technical,
political.
Motor, sputnik, concert, constitution, evolution, phonetics, drama, parliament, decree, telegraph, meeting, pact, melody, history, lecture, republic, tractor, allegro, revolution, radio, dialectics, formula, gas, nylon, sport, club, bank, comedy, materialism, opera, jazz, civil, lyric, stadium, poet, analysis, cybernetics, satellite, rector, idea, film, electron, biology, idealism, robot, computer, printer.
Exercise 2. Arrange the following international words into groups according to their origin.
Comedy, opera, sport, character, drama, parliament, regime, biology, music, system, class, rector, analysis, poet.
Exercise 3. From the list below pick up international words, words which have partial equivalents in Ukrainian/Russian and false friends of translator:
test |
object |
decade |
process |
address |
figure |
faculty |
minister |
objective |
collection |
notation |
journal |
pilot |
data |
model |
expression |
novel |
negative |
license |
order |
scholar |
complement |
problem |
category |
expertise |
specialization |
regular |
academic |
coupe |
selection |
routine |
presentation |
concern |
anonymous |
formalism |
final |
control |
intelligence |
concrete |
technique |