Historical Foundations & Timeline
The language family that Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Gothic belong to is called?
Indo-European
Father in Latin is "pater." What is it in English?
Father
Which Danish linguist contributed to Indo-European study but died young?
Rasmus Rask
Name one branch of the Indo-European family other than Germanic.
Celtic
What does 'embarazar' mean in Spanish, leading to the Parker Pen error?
To impregnate
The comparative method is used to compare what type of words?
Cognates
What language family does English belong to?
Germanic
Who was the monk that wrote about the Anglo-Saxon invasion?
Bede
Which two languages still spoken belong to the Baltic family?
Lithuanian and Latvian
What is the Spanish verb for "embarrass"?
Avergonzar
Name one Celtic language still spoken in the British Isles today.
Welsh
The English word "fish" corresponds to what initial sound in Latin?
p
Who promoted the comparative method, making linguistics a scientific discipline?
William Jones
Which Indo-Iranian languages descend from Sanskrit?
Hindi and Urdu
What type of language change results in sound shifts like Latin 'p' to English 'f'?
Regular sound correspondence
What is the name of the Viking settlement area in northern England?
Danelaw
What is the First Sound Shift often called?
Grimm's Law
What contribution did Rasmus Rask make?
Relationships among Indo-European languages
Which language family includes Farsi and Kurdish?
Indo-Iranian
What unusual borrowing from Old Norse entered English pronouns?
They, them, there
hat major historical event marks the beginning of historical linguistics?
Jones's speech
What is the significance of the dental preterite in Old English verbs?
Past tense marker
Which two scholars are most closely associated with the early development of historical linguistics?
Jones and Grimm
What feature distinguishes Germanic languages according to the text?
Two-tense verbal system
From which language did English borrow pronouns like "they"?
Old Norse