Extra-
Which tribe did not found any kingdom?
Frisians
Name short vowels of OE
a, o, e, i, u, y, æ
The category of case for OE noun was represented by the following cases:
Nominative, Genetive, Dative, and Accusative
There were ... layers of Latin borrowings
3
the classification of languages based on language evolution and relatedness of languages
genetic
Later both parties established ..., splitting the country along a line roughly from London to Chester, giving the Norsemen control over the north and east and the Anglo-Saxons the south and west.
the Danelaw
chain shift of the three series of plosives which explains the common origin of Lat. cardio and Eng. heart
The First Consonant Shift (Grimm's Law)
Categories of OE adjectives
declension, degrees of comparison, gender, case, and number
OE ‘beran’ is of ... origin
Proto-Indo-European
notional parts of speech
nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, adverbs, and numerals
Julius Caesar led the Romans into Britain for the first time in ..., but they did not settle there permanently until .... when Emperor Claudius dispatched a far better-equipped army to subdue the ferocious British Celts.
55 BC/43 AD
a spontaneous, positionally independent alteration of vowels inhabited by the Germanic languages from the Common Indo-European period
Ablaut
Nouns are ... and verbs are ... to create paradigms
declined/conjugated
bānhūs, formed by merging "bān" (bone) and "hūs" (house) is an example of
kenning
Name the oldest surviving Old English literature
Cædmon's Hymn
year 597
introduction of Christianity
the tendency of phonetic assimilation of the root vowel to the vowel of the ending, as in modern English ‘man – men, goose - geese’ etc
Umlaut
... verbs form their past tense using a dental suffix (-d or -t), and the vowel in the stem changes often changes even in the present tense
Name the type of semantic change:
bird
from a small flying animal
to bird of any kind
widening
Name the genre of Cynewulf and Judith
Christian poetry
Name Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
Northumbria, East Anglia, Mercia, Kent, Wessex, Essex, Sussex
... - the process of formation of a short diphthong from a single short vowel when it is followed by a specific consonant cluster [2].
Breaking
Which case in the OE period was an amalgam of several Proto-IE cases?
Dative
Name the type of semantic change:
pretty/prættig
from cunning, crafty, clever
to fine, pleasing
Amelioration
Nouns with vocalic stems belong to a ... declension and those with consonant stems - to a ... declension.
strong/weak