Historical or diachronic lexicology deals with ……………………………. of the vocabulary and the changes it has undergone. Ex. In descriptive lexicology the words "to take", "to adopt" are considered to be English, not different from such native words as "child", "foot", "stone" etc. But in historical lexicology they are treated as borrowed words.

Descripitive lexicology studies the words at a synchronic aspect. It is concerned with the vocabulary of a language as they exist at the …………………………….. time

Lexicology is a branch of linguistics, the …………………… of language.

Roots are main morphemic vehicles of a given idea in a given language at a given stage of its development. A root may be also regarded as the ultimate constituent element which remains ......................................... all functional and derivational affixes and does not admit any further analysis.

Lexicology is a branch of linguistics which studies the …………………………… of a language

Many English words consist of a single root-morpheme, so when we say that most morphemes possess ................................................... we imply mainly the root-morphemes in such words