Monday, April 2, 2012

Exercise your etymology skills

The answer to yesterday's question was Algebra. Al-jebr should have given it away (along with polynomials, equations).

Here's another activity to develop your etymology skills. Guess the language and the meaning the following roots/words are associated with:

Petra
Veritas
Cheetah
Orange

Or just try to find as much information about their origins as possible.

You can feel free to use the web for the activities, but all quiz questions should only be 'guessed'.

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