Polysyllabic words examples: Polysyllabic Words Examples For Kids in English

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Words with two roots (compound words) with separating e, o. Word list.

Two or even three words can form a new word. This way of forming new words is called addition, and the words themselves are called complex. To understand where the roots are in a complex word, you must first correctly determine its meaning. For example, a steamboat is not one that sails in pairs, but a ship that sails in pairs. Or a mousetrap is not a dexterous mouse, but a mouse trap.

There are words that look like compounds, but in fact they have only one root, and it clearly emerges after finding the meaning of the word. For example, yellowish is not yellow wool, but slightly yellow, the root is one (yellow), and ovate is a suffix. Or the greatest is not a great tea, but just a very great one.

Let’s work on defining the meaning of words with two roots

Vacuum cleaner: A machine for removing dust by sucking it in with a jet of air.

Rhinoceros: Large mammal of southern countries with one or two horns on the front of the muzzle.

Tipper: Truck with mechanical tipping body.

Scooter: At the beginning of the 20th century: the army name for a bicycle, a mechanical cart.

Scooter: Now: For children: a rolling bar with a standing handle on wheels or rollers.

Helicopter: A vertical take-off and landing heavier-than-air aircraft with a horizontal rotor “propeller”.

Airplane: An aircraft heavier than air with a power plant and a wing that generates lift.

(Interpretation taken from Ozhegov’s Explanatory Dictionary)

Otherwise, a vacuum cleaner is something that sucks dust. Roots ardor, sos.
Rhino is an animal with a horn on its nose. Nose roots, horn.
Dump truck — a machine that dumps the load itself. The roots itself and the shaft. C in front of the second root is a prefix.
A scooter is a device that rolls itself. Roots myself, cat.
A helicopter is a vehicle that flies vertically. Roots vert, years.
An airplane is a device that flies by itself. Roots myself, fly. 0, e mousetrap, meat grinder, oil pipeline, steamboat, vacuum cleaner, machine gun, pedestrian, esophagus, bird catcher, fisherman, samovar, airplane, scooter, dump truck, steelworker, snowfall, glass cutter, diesel locomotive, camera, bread machine, electric locomotive.

porridge (porridge + boil)

birder (poultry + catch)

pedestrian (hike + walk)

rain gauge (rain + measure)

vacuum cleaner (dust + suction)

poultry farm (poultry + factory)

oil pipeline (oil + conduct)

vegetable storage (vegetable + store)

travel (path + walk)

mousetrap

sailor

mud treatment

steel var

shipwreck

land surveyor

machine gun

fresh-frozen

sailor

all-rounder

all-carrying

sun-stand

Examples of complex words with a connecting vowel -o-

samovar (self + boil)

waterfall (water + fall)

icebreaker (ice + stab)

tongueOved (tongue + know)

snowfall (snow + fall)

helicopter (vertical + fly)

glass cutter (glass + cut)

concreteMixer (concrete + mesh) a)

hunter (animal + catch)

houseOsed (at home + sit)

plane Odiode

Electric saw

Test Stirrer

Another list of compound words with two roots and even three

Telephoto.

Compound words in Russian (with examples)

Contents

• 1 Compound words are written as one word
• 2 Compound words are hyphenated

In Russian, words with two or more roots are called compound words. As a rule, such words are formed by only two main morphemes:

self-formation, coffee maker, lawn mower, six hundredth.

Words with three roots are less common:

motorsport, biopolymer, aircraft construction.

And here are examples of words with more than three roots:

X-ray electrocardiography, dimethylaminoazoparsulfonic acid.

Compound words have two spellings — continuous and hyphenated. In turn, when writing together, the roots of words are either connected by a certain connecting element, or the second immediately follows the first. In Russian, an interfix is ​​used as a connecting element, which is placed between the two main morphemes of a word and has no semantic meaning. Often an interfix is ​​called a connecting vowel or suffix. Consider when compound words are written together, and when — through a hyphen.

Compound words are written as one word

This happens if:

• a connecting interfix is ​​used in their formation. Often, the vowels «e» and «o» act as an interfix. The vowel «e» is written after soft consonants and after «zh», «sh», «c»; vowel «o» — after solid, except for «g», «sh», «c»:

black-browed, railway, shipbuilding, freshly prepared;

There are words in which the first main morpheme is the same, but the connectives with them are different:

circulation — circulatory;

Sometimes, contrary to the rule, in compound words, “o” is written after soft consonants:

trapper, carnivore, ambition, bruising;

Other interfixes are also used to connect compound words, such as -uh-, -ex-, -i-, -u-:

• there is no connecting interfix and the root of the first word is of foreign origin — auto-, bio-, hydro-, quasi-, cinema-, macro-, moto-, multi-, tele-, photo-, electro- and others:

rally, bioadditive, hydroelectric power plant, radio frequency, fivefold, multimillionaire.

Do not confuse these roots with prefixes anti-, ultra-, extra-, archi-, infra-, super-. Words with such morphemes are not classified as complex;

• there is no connecting letter, the first part of the word means half (half-), and the second part starts with any consonant, except for «l»:

noon, half the world, half the kingdom;

• are compound abbreviations:

special agent, chief accountant, food store.

Compound words are hyphenated

This happens if:

• each part can be used independently:

purchase and sale, kilowatt-hour, southwestern, popular science;

• these are proper and common names in combination with prepositions, conjunctions, particles:

Frankfurt am Main, coltsfoot;

• are compound names of geographical objects or double surnames:

Saltykov-Shchedrin, St. Petersburg;

• the first word of a foreign language origin (vice-, ex-, press-, midi-, mini-, block- and others):

press secretary, ex-president;

The words blockhouse and roadblock are exceptions;

• these are adjectives describing color shades and other qualities:

pale yellow, cloyingly sweet;

• begins with the root half-, and the second root begins with a vowel, consonant or capital letter:

half a lemon, half a street, half a Moscow.