| teach | teacher |
| sing | singer |
| work | worker |
| cater | caterer |
| wring | wringer |
| conduct | conductor |
| direct | director |
| launder | laundry |
| seam | seamstress |
| song | songstress |
| priest | priestess |
| mister | mistress |
| cow | cowherd |
| piano | pianist |
| art | artist |
| pharmacy | pharmacist |
| drug | druggist |
| physic | physician |
| prison | prisoner |
| house | household |
| earl | earldom |
| king | kingdom |
| count | county |
| real | reality |
| modern | modernness |
| good | goodness |
| sad | sadness |
| aloof | aloofness |
The child's exercise with the two alphabets will be as follows:
| frutto | frutteto |
| canna | canneto |
| oliva | oliveto |
| quercia | querceto |
For English:
| song | songster | songstress | |
| art | artist | artless | artful |
List III
PREFIXES
nodo (knot): annodare, snodare, risnodare
scrivere (write): riscrivere, trascrivere, sottoscrivere, descrivere
coprire (cover): scoprire, riscoprire
gancio (hook): agganciare, sganciare, riagganciare
legare (bind): collegare, rilegare, allegare, slegare
bottone (button): abbottonare, sbottonare, riabbottonare
macchiare (spot): smacchiare, rismacchiare
chiudere (close): socchiudere, schiudere, richiudere, rinchiudere
guardare (look at): riguardare, traguardare, sogguardare
vedere (see): travedere, rivedere, intravedere
perdere (lose): disperdere, sperdere, riperdere
mettere (put, place): smettere, emettere, rimettere, permettere, commettere, promettere, sottomettere
vincere (overcome): rivincere, avvincere, convincere, stravincere
For English:
cover: uncover, discover, recover
pose: impose, compose, dispose, repose, transpose
do: undo, overdo
place: displace, replace, misplace
submit: remit, commit, omit, permit
close: disclose, foreclose, reclose
arrange: rearrange, disarrange
The child's exercise with the two alphabets will be as follows:
| coprire |
| scoprire |
| ricoprire |
For English:
| place |
| displace |
| replace |
List IV
COMPOUND WORDS
cartapecora (parchment)
cartapesta (papier maché)
falsariga (guide)
madreperla (mother-of-pearl)
melagrana (pomegranate)
melarancia (orange)
biancospino (hawthorn)
ficcanaso (busybody)
lavamano (wash-stand)
mezzogiorno (noon)
passatempo (pastime)
ragnatela (cobweb)
madrevite (vine)
guardaportone