IMPORTANT EVENTS

AND INFLUENCES
Presented by:
Nafeesa Kanwal & Zohaib Nawaz
 Old words with new meanings

The resources of vocabulary are sometimes extended from an employment

of an old word in new sense.
For example
Radiator was used for any thing that radiated heat or light, before it was
applied specifically to steam heat or automobile.
Some other examples
 Common word from proper names

A source from which many English words have been derived in

past is the name of person and places. More then 500 common
words in English have been traced to proper names and they must
be considered as illustrating one of the sources from which new
words are still being derived.
 Changes of meaning

It has been observed that in sense, development words often purse

certain well marked tendencies. Among he more common of these
are, Extention of meaning, Narrowing of meaning, Degeneration
of meaning, and Regeneration of meaning.