Tag: World English
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immigration
Last post, we looked into the origins of border, which turned up many planks and ships. But what of immigration? Immigration The homeland of immigration is the Latin verb, migrare, “to move” or “change residence.” Immigrate features the prefix im-, a form of in-, “into,” assimilated to the root’s m to ease pronunciation. Immigrate‘s counterpart, emigrate, uses e-, “out of,” to make its meaning. The Latin migrare has…