1. Magic Morpgolohy: Word Formation in the Harry Potter Books

2. Frequency of word formation processes

3. Compounds – 30% Hogwarts = hog (n.) + warts (n.) -a type of flower
Potterwatch = Potter (n.) + watch (n.)
Radio programme
Grimmauld = grimm (adj. as in grim-’cruel’) + auld (adj. Scottish spelling of old)
Hippogriff = hippo (n. Latin for horse) + griffin (n. hybrid between an eagle head and lion)
Firebolt = fire (n.) + bolt (n.)
-a type of broom

4. Neoclassical compound
Legilimency = legere (Latin : reading) + mens (Latin : mind)
- the art of reading people’s minds
Occlumency= occludere (Latin: to occlude/to stop) + mens
- The ability of blocking one’s mind for people who try to read it
Reduplicative compound
Babbity Rabbity - a female person who can turn herself into a rabbit

5. Loan words
Beauxbatons = Beaux (adj: beautiful in French) + batons (n: sticks in French )
Voldemort (compund) = vol + de + mort (French) =the flight from death
Lumos = light in latin
Sickle (silver coins of the wizadr currency) = currency of Israel is shekel(Hebrew)
Accio (to fetch/ to summon in Latin)
Patronum ( Used in Expecto Patronum , means protector or patron in Latin)

6. Draco = dragon in Latin
Malfoy = Bad faith in Latin
Lucius = the son of the devil in Latin
Severus Snape = Severus (sever, serious, strict In Latin)
Sirius Black = Sirius (the brightest star in the sky)
Nimbus ( a broom) = cloud in Latin

7. Remus Lupin = Remus, brother of Romulus; Lupin, derivation of lupus which is Latin for wolf
Nagini = naga is a kind of half-snake from Hinduism and
Buddhism
Albus Dumbledore = Albus is white in Latin, Dumbledore is Old English word for bumblebee
Rubeus Hagrid (a compound) = hag-ridden = from hag + ride Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmare.

8. Affixation Suffixation: Prefixation:
Seeker= Seek+er Disapparate= Dis- + apparate (to Snatcher= Snatch +er teleport/ appear somewhere)
Dementor = Dement + or
Howler= Howl + er
Muggle = mug (gullible) + le

9. Blending Remembrall = remember + all Portkey= portal + key
Pensieve= Penser or une pensée+ sieve
Quidditch = mixture of the balls used: quaffle, bludger and snitch
Animagus = animal + magus

10. Abbreviation OWL - Ordinary Wizarding Level (acronym)
NEWT - Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests (acronym)
SPEW- short of Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare

11. Conversion
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. - the name used to refer to Voldemort, but without mentioning his real name.
You-Know-Who
- which comes from a sentence and it turns into a noun and it is used with the same goal, avoidance of his name out of fear.

12. Extension of meaning
Fluffy (adding – y to express a positive meaning) = gigantic three-headed dog
Merlin’s Beard – interjection, swearword for the wizards
e.g. “Merlin’s beard, Harry, you made me jump”
Squib = a non-magical person born in a wizard family
-original a kind of fire-cracker, damp squib - figurative meaning: a disappointment

13. Other Diagon Alley = derived from “diagonally’’ ,
The Mirror of Erised = desire, but it is written inversely, erised = desire
Knockturn Alley = derived from nocturnally

14. griffin + d’or
sly + slithering/
slither in
Raven + claw
huffle + puff