Aloha High School Farm was purchased, and in 1966, construction began on a new building. There were construction delays, so in September 1968, the first Aloha High School tenth and eleventh grade students used the former Merle Davies Elementary School and parts of Beaverton High School. The Aloha High School building, though incomplete, held its first classes in 1970. The community of Aloha (pronounced Ah-LO-wa) was likely named for a place in the state of Wisconsin, and not for the Hawaiian word "aloha". The association with Hawaii, however, gives the school its mascot, a Hawaiian warrior, and the design of the school crest,
Word family affix. Bauer and Nation proposed seven levels of affixes. Word family A word family is the base form of a word plus its inflected forms and derived forms made from affixes. In the English language, inflectional affixes include third person -"s", verbal "-ed" and "-ing", plural -"s", possessive -"s", comparative -"er" and superlative -"est". Derivational affixes include -"able, -er, -ish, -less, -ly, -ness, -th, -y, non-, un-, -al, -ation, -ess, -ful, -ism, -ist, -ity, -ize/-ise, -ment, in-". The idea is that a base word and its inflected forms support the same core meaning, and can be considered learned words if