SWI Notes for March

Friday, March 20

• read Tiger page from Why is a Tiger a Tiger? A Beastiary of Etymology by Dave Buchen

  

• review the 4 Steps of SWI (Meaning, Structure, Relatives, Pronounciation)
• review word sums and matrices
• analyze < radiant > and look at its connection to other words
  < radiate >
  < radiation >
  < radius >
• analyze < pandemic > which means all + people
  pan - Greek - "all"

  demos - Greek - "people"

• discuss how < pandemic > IS related to < democracy > (morphologically, which means it shares a base) but IS NOT automatically connected to other words which contain pan including
  [frying] pan

  pandenus fruit

  panda bear

• choose words for next week's session
  < pan >
  < fork >
  < spoon >
  < knife >

Friday, March 27

• review the prefix pan- and analyze < pandemonium > (a term coined by John Milton for "Paradise Lost") which means all + demons
• analyze < pan > (as in frying pan)
• look at the entry for < pan > in etymonline to see how entries are structured, beginning with the present and going deeper into the past (Middle English, Old English, Proto-Germanic, Latin, Greek, PIE)
• follow the live link in etymonline for the Proto-Indo-European root *pete- "to spread" and look at other words related to < pan > (etymologically, which means that they share an ancient root... these are distant relatives of pan and not close cousins)
• analyze < fork >, < spoon >, and < knife > and discover that these are also Old English words (panne, forca, spon, cnif)!
• choose words for next week's session
  < epidemiologist >
  < dandelion >

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