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Phonology
Morphology
Lexicology
Graphology/Orthology
Semantics/Syntax
100
The study of sounds in a language.
What is Phonology?
100
25000 words?
How many words did Old English have?
100
Syntactic relations withing sentences are expressed by inflections.
What is a synthetic language?
200
The case that indicates possession.
What is the genitive case?
200
Compounding
How did Old English mainly form new words?
200
Old Norse changed English word order.
Which language forced fixed word order on Old English?
300
sound rude
Why do some words disappear?
300
The first alphabet brought to England.
What is Futhork?
300
A word comes to mean something completely different.
What is semantic shift?
400
A consistent of consonant sound shifts.
What is Grimm's law?
400
The most common type of OE verbs.
What are strong verbs?
500
Letters shift to: f, th, x/h
What letters do p, t and k shift to?
500
Ic
What is the OE pronoun for 'I'
500
The sound for an action it makes.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
putting an English translation above the Latin one in old texts.
What was glossing?