dead languages
This is the most famous/most studied dead language
What is latin?
This word order was seen in Old English in which sentences took verb-second construction in main clauses, and verb-final construction in subordinate clauses
What is free word order?
Process: Through this process the words breakfast and lunch became brunch.
What is an example of a blend?
This city lends its name to the first certified Semitic language. Its writing was cuneiform.
What is Akkad? (Akkadian is the language)
What is this an example of: “Know I? → Do I know?”
What us do-support?
Process: Through this process the word influenza became flu.
What is an example of clipping?
This is the name of the spoken form of the Ancient Egyptian written language
What is Coptic?
This precursor to Modern English did not have do-support for questions and negatives.
What is Old English?
Origin: This word is closely tied to French désastre, which is derived from the Old Italian disastro, itself derived from Greek. The pejorative prefix dis- and aster (star) can be interpreted as bad star, or an ill-starred event
What is the origin of the English word disaster?
The Codex Argenteus is the most well-known source for this language.
What is Gothic?
This precursor to Modern English allowed for negative concord, as exemplified in the literary classic, the Canterbury Tales
What is Middle English?
Origin: This word has Greek roots, from the word "helikos" (spiral) and "pter" (wing).
What is the origin of Helicopter?
This was the most widely spoken European language during the 10th century
What is Old Norse?
What is this an example of: “There was never no more laziness at work than before.”
What is negative concord or emphatic negation?
Origin: Salt was called “white gold” because it can be used as an antiseptic for wounds and can be used to preserve food. In Romance languages one can recognize a connection between sal/sale, meaning “salt,” and salud/saude/salute, meaning “health”) — and to preserve food, and also as a method of payment in Greece and Rome.
What is the origin of the word salary?