Words with the root -hor-, -gar-: examples

The tanned cook Proshka

Potatoes burned today

Because fumes oozed from the stove

And at the wrong time they removed the soot from the candle.

This stupid at first glance poem has a hidden meaning that is related to the spelling of vowels in the roots with alternation. In the poem there are words with the root -hor- and -gar-. What is the rule for writing this root?

Root - mountain - / - gar -. Spelling rule

If we take words with this root from a comic rhyme, we can divide them into two groups:

• with the letter "o": tanned, burnt;
• with the letter "a": fumes, soot.

Now it remains to compare the words from the two groups, when comparing, the following pattern can be revealed: “o” is in the position without stress, the letter “a” is under stress. From here the rule is formulated:

• Vowels in the root with alternating –gar - / - mountains depend on stress: the stressed vowel is the letter “a”, the unstressed one is the letter “o”.

Words with a root - mountain - / - gar -. Examples illustrating a rule

Based on the rule formulated in the previous chapter, you can create a table and fill it with examples.

Not so simple

It would seem that everything is very simple, but it is not. Words with the root -hor- can put you in a quandary. This is what is said in the tale of two brothers.

Two twin brothers lived in the country of Linguinia. In everything they were the same: both in meaning and pronunciation. Only one letter distinguished their names: one brother was called Horus, and the name of the other was Gar.

The brothers were very friendly with each other. They never quarreled and performed their hard work honestly. And they served as the roots in the words. The brothers shared their responsibilities among themselves in fairness. Gore became an unstressed root in words, his service was not so difficult, but there were many deeds. Gar went to work under stress. It was a hard task, but it was not so often required to go to the service. Each of the brothers was pleased with their work, and they lived well, in harmony.

But one day Gore met another root, very similar to himself. It was an amazing resemblance. And soon the two Mountains were inseparable. They could be found in sentences in which there are words with the root “mountain”:

The house burned down - the family is grieving.

Pancakes burned - that’s the grief of his wife.

Gorky Yegorke - burned down stanchions.

Only from this neighborhood of the two Mountains did relations between brothers begin to deteriorate. A friend whispered to Horus in his ear: “Your brother is a loafer. You and I are working in the sweat of our faces, and he comes running from time to time. Just think, under stress, it’s not so difficult, I’m doing it alone. Let us drive him out and we will be brothers. ”

Gore was completely exhausted from such speeches: he liked a new friend, because he looked so much like himself, he could not be directly distinguished, and he did not want to get rid of his brother. How can poor Mountain get it right?

Hurry to the aid of Horus and help him understand: can the root -hor- in the words “grieve”, “grief”, “bitterly” replace his sibling.

Can the words “grief” and “burn” be relatives?

What is the root of the word grief, for example? We turn to the explanatory dictionary Ozhegova.

And we learn that the words “trouble”, “misfortune”, “longing”, “sadness”, “grief” will be synonyms for the word “grief”. That is, the meaning of this word refers to the person’s inner experience of negative emotions. The same meaning in the words “grieve” and “bitterly”.

To grieve is to suffer, to experience sadness, sorrow.

Bitter - unpleasant, sad, painful.

Words with a root - mountain - / - gar - have a completely different lexical meaning, examples of which are "burned out", "burnt out". In the Dahl dictionary, they are interpreted as follows:

Burn - to be enveloped in fire, exposed to flame or heat.

There are also figurative meanings:

• shine (snowflakes burn in the sun);
• much to desire (burned with a thirst for change);
• work quickly, quickly (everything burns in his hands).

So, it turns out that such strikingly similar roots –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– --- So, it turns out that such strikingly similar roots -mountain- (grief) and -mountain- (burn) actually have nothing in common in the most important - in its lexical meaning. This means that they cannot be related.

But the root -gar- will always be an integral part of the root -hor-, since it also matters "to be exposed to high temperature effects":

• tan - dark skin color from long exposure to sunlight;
• nagar - growth from burning;
• fumes - gas remaining after burning;
• cinder - a place where something was burning.

Words with the root “mountain”, examples of which were the objects of study, can serve as an illustration of a linguistic phenomenon - homonymy, which is characterized by the fact that identically expressed units of the language differ in their semantics. In addition to the morpheme -hor-, we can give an example of the root ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– .

The spelling of the roots -hor- and -hor - - - gar-

Being homonyms, the roots –hor- and –hor - / - gar- obey different spelling rules. If the spelling of the root –gar - / - hor – is dependent on the stress, then the root is the orthogram “Unstressed verbal vowel in the root of the word”. The rule for this spelling is formulated as follows. In order to avoid mistakes when choosing an unstressed vowel, one must choose a test word in which this vowel in the same morpheme would become stressed.

In accordance with this rule, the words with the root –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– we shall check “grief,” “sorrowful,” “bitter.”

In addition to the root with the meaning "sadness", "misfortune", there is another homonym -hor-, it means "high ground". For example, in the words "mountain", "mountainous", "mountainous", "highlander", "upland", "hillock", "hillock" is precisely such semantics.

These words with the root “mountain” are also verified by stress. This means that the "mountain", "mountainous" should be checked with the words "mountains", "mountain".

Alternating root –zor- / zar-

There is another root in the Russian language with alternation, the spelling of which depends on the stress. This is the root - gap - / - zar. It has the lexical meaning "lighting the horizon in red when the sun rises or sets."

In it, unlike the root -hor- / gar-, under the stress you should write the letter "o", and without stress - the letter "a". We use the table to illustrate this rule.

Thus, it is necessary to remember that words with the root –mount - / - gar -, - zor - / - have similarities, determined by the dependence of spelling on stress.

Exception Words

There are exceptions to each rule. They are also found in spelling patterns associated with the roots - gap - / - zar -, - hor - / - gar -.

All exceptions relate to the spelling "Unverified vowels and consonants." The rule of writing such words is as follows: the writing of unverifiable words should be remembered.