Extralinguistic
Whom did Romans conquer?
Celtic tribes
How many short vowels were there in Old English?
7
Name notional parts of speech
nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, numerals,pronouns
Native words in OE included words of ..., ..., ... origin
Indo-Europea, Germanic, English
When did Anglo-Saxons come to the British Isles?
5th century (449 AD)
How many diphthongs were there in Old English?
4
Name non-finite forms of verbs in Old English
participle and infinitive
Toponyms in OE were sometimes borrowed from ...
Celtic
Name all Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
Name the change: Lat p - Germ f
Grimm's Law/ the First Consonant Shift
Name adjectival categories in OE
declension, gender, number, case, degrees of comparison
Give an example of a kenning
?
Viking raids began in England
late 8th century (793/789)
Name the Vowel change: run-ran-run
Ablaut
Name all categories of demonstrative pronouns in OE
case, gender, number, person
'ill' was borrowed from
Scandinavian
Danelaw can describe the set of legal terms and definitions created in the treaties between Alfred the Great, the king of Wessex, and ...
Guthrum, the Danish warlord
Name the vowel change: foot - feet
Umlaut
Name noun declensions in OE
vowel (strong d) and consonant (weak d), minor declensions (root d)
'wine' was borrowed from
Latin