The Greek Language

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Have you ever pondered about the true and real meaning of words? Think about the history behind words or how affixes help make up a word. A ‘root’ is the base of a word, which cannot stand by itself. Affixes attach to the beginning and/or ending of roots to make words. Roots are the basic definition of the word with a prefix or suffix to change it. A prefix or suffix can change a word completely, based on what the prefix or suffix means. Take the root word geo for example. Geo has a basic definition that will combine with a prefix or suffix to create a word relating to the earth.
Geo is a root that means earth or ground/land. Most words containing geo have a scientific meaning, with an exception for a few. Biogeochemistry, biogeography, geobotany, and geohydrology all relate to the study of something scientific or earthly; meanwhile, geometry is a branch of mathematics. The root geo has an unknown origin; however, it derives from the Greek language.
The Greek language, originally written in Mycenae, Greece, has remained on earth from the years 1500 and 1200 BC. The language is a Hellenic branch of the Indo-European language family (Ager). Approximately 13 million people speak the Greek language, mostly in Greece and Cyprus. Greek is also a minority language in Albania, Armenia, Romania, Ukraine, and in some parts of Italy. The Greek language …show more content…

[Geo] means earth, [chron] means time, and [ology] relates to the study of. Originating from the year 1893, geochronology defines as the chronology, or sequential order, of the earth as based on both absolute and relative methods of age determination. Perhaps it came into play when an American geologist, Newton Horace Winchell, became the director/state geologist of the Geological and Natural History Survey. This occurred when he moved to Minnesota in 1872 (Schwartz). The word geochronology most likely started around the time of the Winchell, an American

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