meaning or root of word: inundate

[yabi]

source: https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/03/16/footage-shows-truck-being-swept-off-bridge-in-turkey-floods/

The sentence:
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said rescue teams were still searching for five people reported missing in three locations, after the flash floods turned streets in Adiyaman and Sanliurfa provinces into rivers, swept away cars, inundated homes and drenched campsiteIs sheltering earthquake survivors.

This is the first time I face the word: inundate
Its meaning: to cover with a flood : overflow.
I thought its meaning should be related to word "date" somehow, but to my surprise it has nothing to do with it.
Will be happy if you could throw some light on this word with prefixes in and un

 

[tedmc]

There is no prefix and the word has nothing to do with "date". You can check the word etymology if you want to know how it is derived.

inundate | Etymology of inundate by etymonline

"to overflow, run over" (source also of Spanish inundar, French inonder). Related:… See origin and meaning of inundate.

www.etymonline.com

 

[emsr2d2]

The sentence:
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said rescue teams were still searching for five people reported missing in three locations, after the flash floods turned streets in Adiyaman and Sanliurfa provinces into rivers, swept away cars, inundated homes and drenched campsiteIs sheltering earthquake survivors.

Source: https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/03/16/footage-shows-truck-being-swept-off-bridge-in-turkey-floods/

This is the first time I face have seen the word no colon here "inundate", Its meaning no colon here "to cover with a flood/overflow".
I thought its the meaning should would be related to the word "date" somehow no comma here but, to my surprise, it has nothing to do with it.
Will I would be happy if you could throw shed some light on this word with that seems to have both the prefixes "in-" and "un-".

Please note my corrections above, including the improvement to the layout. Always put the quote before the source.

 

[jutfrank]

The initial 'in-' is a prefix.

The stem is -und(a)-.

The ending '-ate' is a very common verb suffix.


There's no connection between the 'd' of '-unda-' and the '-ate' suffix, so there's no 'date' to speak of.

 

[yabi]

Thanks. Is the word "under" comes from same root?

The initial 'in-' is a prefix.

The stem is -und(a)-.

The ending '-ate' is a very common verb suffix.


There's no connection between the 'd' of '-unda-' and the '-ate' suffix, so there's no 'date' to speak of.

 

[jutfrank]

Is the word "under" comes from same root?

No, it doesn't.

 

[emsr2d2]

Is Does the word "under" comes come from the same root?

Note the correct way to construct such a question. If you want to start with "Is", you need to omit "come".

Does the word "under" come from the same root?
Is the word "under" from the same root?

 

[yabi]

Note the correct way to construct such a question. If you want to start with "Is", you need to omit "come".

Does the word "under" come from the same root?
Is the word "under" from the same root?

Thanks a lot. I was unaware of this point.
What a wonderful forum is UsingEnglish? I love it and all it's participants for their help and support.

 

[emsr2d2]

Thanks a lot. I was unaware of this point.
What a wonderful forum is UsingEnglish is! I love it and all it's its participants for their help and support.

We look forward to helping you more.

 

[yabi]

We look forward to helping you more.

We look forward to helping you more.

You wrote: We look forward to helping you more.
Is it correct to use ing form of the verb: We are looking forward helping you more.

 

[probus]

The initial 'in-' is a prefix.

Perhaps, but it's debatable. The Latin root is inundare meaning to overflow.

 

[jutfrank]

Perhaps, but it's debatable. The Latin root is inundare meaning to overflow.

There are three morphemes in inundare.

The -unda- part relates to a wavelike movement, and the initial in- part can be read to mean something like 'onto' or 'into'. Think of a wave flowing onto a piece of land. Inundation is not really about something (say, a river) overflowing, but about the water of the river flowing onto the banks.

 

[probus]

I don't see why "in" being a morpheme makes it a prefix but let's not quibble over something that's unimportant to most of our forum members.

 

[Barque]

You wrote: We look forward to helping you more.

It's a correct sentence.

Is it correct to use ing form of the verb: We are looking forward helping you more.

You can, if you include "to". We are looking forward to helping you more. But what emsr2d2 said is more natural.

 

[tedmc]

You wrote: We look forward to helping you more.
Is it correct to use ing form of the verb: We are looking forward helping you more.

It's a very common mistake for learners to write, "We are looking forward to help (verb) you more, thinking that to is an infinitive which is to be followed by a base verb, when it is not. To is a preposition, not an infinitive. Looking forward to is a set phrase which isto be followed by a noun or gerund, not a verb. You look forward to something, not look forward to do something.

Your sentence above which you have dropped to is wrong.

 

[yabi]

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It's a very common mistake for learners to write, "We are looking forward to help (verb) you more, thinking that to is an infinitive which is to be followed by a base verb, when it is not. To is a preposition, not an infinitive. Looking forward to is a set phrase which isto be followed by a noun or gerund, not a verb. You look forward to something, not look forward to do something.

Your sentence above which you have dropped to is wrong.

This is the best and most informative answer I got. Thanks a lot.

 

[emsr2d2]

It's a very common mistake for learners to write no comma here "We are looking forward to help (verb) you more, thinking that to is an infinitive which is to be followed by a base verb, when it is not. To is a preposition, not an infinitive. Looking forward to is a set phrase which is to be followed by a noun or gerund, not a verb. You look forward to [doing] something, not look forward to do something.

Your sentence above, in which you have dropped to, is wrong.

 

[tedmc]

"You look forward to (doing) something, not look forward to do something."

I wrote the above without "doing" to mean that which is a noun, which could be anything, including a gerund. "Look forward to" does not necessarily have to be followed by a gerund (as in the original sentence); the object could be other things like event/opportunity/appointment, etc. I wrote "something" as distinct from "to do something", as yabi was obviously not used to the phrase "to doing".

 

[emsr2d2]

That's why I put it in square brackets. You specifically said that it could be followed by a noun or a gerund but then gave an example that showed only a noun ("something"). I wanted to add the gerund.