Classical Influence
Assignment: due Friday, 2
October
On looseleaf (or,
preferably, typed), and skipping lines, begin with alfa and its
assosciated word akroġ
[high] and find
how it enters English with
an example:
e.g.
akroġ high
- acropolis the high city /citadel or high fortified area of a
Greek city
Some of the less obvious
Greek words on sheet:
enteron- intestine
(h)emera- day
lithos- stone nesos-
island
(h)ris nose tokos-
childbearing, childbirth
ops - eye
N.B.
Not every picture corresponds to the Greek word.