How familiar we are with certain words used automatically. Often we do not think about their meaning and origin. We invite our readers to parse the meaning of the word "participant", its origin, find synonyms and parse by morphemic composition.
Meaning of the word
What did people do when they tried to find the meaning of a word they were interested in in ancient times without computers and the Internet? Modern schoolchildren, most likely, do not understand how we looked for the necessary things in thick explanatory dictionaries. One of them was always present on the shelf with textbooks. Someone just has a huge and very thick Ozhegov dictionary, in a dark blue or green hardcover, someone has a small Dahl dictionary, and others owned a whole library of dictionaries.
But we digress, back to the meaning of our word. If you turn to the dictionaries that the Internet is full of, they will show the same thing: "A participant is a person who is engaged in joint activities with others." In other words, he takes part in something.
Origin of the word
The word we are analyzing comes from the verb "participate", this is understandable. But let's dig deeper, back to the language of our ancestors, when the spelling was completely different than it is today. And the letters were very different from the symbols we are used to.
So, the Proto-Slavic language reveals its secrets. Cęst is the original word from which all other derivatives have gone. It translates as "share" or "inheritance". Let's apply the old translation to the current meaning of the word, what do we see? A participant is a person who is in a share, having a part of something. And we are not talking about the financial component. We are back to where we started - the participant has a share or part in any business.
Morphemic composition
As promised above, it's time to parse our word by morphemic composition:
- fate is the root;
- nickname - suffix;
- no ending;
- participant is the basis.
Synonyms
If you pay attention to the content of the article, the absence of synonyms for the word being parsed will catch your eye. We did not use them on purpose, leaving them "for dessert".
So, words of the same meaning are: shareholder, accomplice, shareholder, member, contestant. As we can see, there are synonyms familiar to us, and extremely rare in everyday life.
Conclusion
We hope that the article will be useful for readers. It will be useful for parents who are forced to teachlessons with children, schoolchildren and just people who want to know the origin of certain words.
