Category: LINGUISTICS

A study of the history and process of Borrowing is essentially the study of the development of language. It reveals the point of contact between two people and two ways …

The Zodiac is an astrological concept understood generally in terms of a diagram dividing the sky into twelve parts. Each of these twelve parts has a name and their symbol …

Robert Boyle is considered to have refined the modern scientific method for alchemy and to have separated Chemistry further from alchemy. Chemistry is a branch of Science that has been …

German Pathologist Edwin Klebs observed Pneumonia bacteria under a microscope for the first step and this was a huge step forward in the fight against the pulmonary disease. Pneumonia is …

Jacob Grimm, following up the suggestion of a Danish Scholar, Rask, formulated explanation which accounted for the correspondences between certain consonants in Germanic language and those found in Sanskrit, Greek, …

In the 9th century, a Persian doctor published one of the first written accounts of measles disease. In 1912, measles became notified disease. After that measles underwent a sea change …

The word Bacteria is derived from the Greek word bacterian which means a little stick. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch cloth merchant was the first person to see bacteria using …

Grimm’s Law is a study of correspondences between certain consonants in the Germanic language and those found in Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit. A Danish scholar Rask discovered that these changes …

The revival of Greek learning at the beginning of the 16th opened up a new source which enriched the English vocabulary. However, even diving the Pre-Renaissance period. Greek words made inward into …

PREFIX : A remarkable feature of the flexibility and richness of English vocabulary comes from the use of prefixes and suffixes to form new words from old words or to modify …