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Sem.3 HEL Old English WIFMAN /WIMMAN (NE Woman) Developed From Two
Sem.3 HEL Old English WIFMAN /WIMMAN (NE Woman) Developed From Two
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Old English WIFMAN /WIMMAN ( NE Woman) developed from two *
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two independent Old German words
two independent Old English words
The oldest part of OE vocabulary was represented by... *
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common Indo-European words
Common Germanic words
specifically OE words
Old English word composition was highly productive in formation of... *
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nouns
adverbs
verbs
adjectives
Celtic words were introduced into Old English via.. *
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education
religion
war
conquest
Native Old English words were divided into ... layers: *
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2
3
4
5
Celtic borrowings are found in.. *
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place names
names of OE kingdoms ( Kent, Deira, Bernicia)
loan words ( binn, crib, cumb etc)
all of them
New suffixes developed as a result of *
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borrowings
morphological simplification of words
words' conversion
PG suffixes' influence
Old English words included .....ways of word formation *
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2
3
4
Old English words containing a root morpheme and none ore more derivational affixes
were called.... *
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simple
derived
compound
Suffixes -dom, -had, -nes, -scipe were used to form... *
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abstract nouns
concrete nouns
adverbs
adjectives
Old English vocabulary comprised .. *
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550 borrowed words
600 borrowed words
700 borrowed words
800 borrowed words
Suffix - e /-lice was used for formation of OE.... *
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nouns
adjectives
adverbs
verbs
SKIN, SKIRT, SKY belong to *
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Germanic words
native English words
Scandinavian words
The most productive means of word derivation in OE was ... *
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prefixation
suffixation
conversion
composition
In the formation of place -names Mancester/Winchester, Lancaster the combination of
what components were supposed?? *
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Celtic +Latin
Celtic+Germanic
Germanic +Germanic
The Scandinavian borrowings are mostly concerned with .. *
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seafaring
administrative and social systems of the Danelaw
everyday colloquial vocabulary
political system
Etymologically OE suffixes that lost their productivity were called... *
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derivational sufixes
old-stem suffixes
new suffixes
affixes
Specifically OE words occur ... *
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in all Germanic languages
in all non-Germanic languages
in OE variant*
The following Old English words cearful, blodig, hlafordleas, wundorlic are formed by
means of... *
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common prefixes
common suffixes
specific affixes
PG suffixes
......... was used as a distinctive feature between verbs and nouns , and between verbs
derived from a single noun *
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umlaut
ablaut
i-umlaut
vowel gradation
The common Germanic layer includes words shared by... *
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all Germanic languages
all Germanic tribes
both by all Germanic and Indo-European languages
Old English borrowing came from ... *
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Latin, French and Greek
Celtic, Latin and Scandinavian
Scandinavian, Greek and Latin
French, Greek and Scandinavian
SHALL, SHOULDER, SHIRT are *
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Germanic words
native English words*
Scandinavian words
Derivational suffixes were inherited from... *
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Latin
Greek
PIE and PG
PG
Old English words containing a root morpheme and no derivational affixes were
called.... *
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simple
derived
compound
The process of Latin borrowings assimilation in English knew .... periods. *
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2
3
4
5
Old English Monan-daeg is formed from Latin as a *
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calque
translation-loan
syntactic transformation
Old English words containing more than one root morpheme were called.... *
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simple
derived
compound
Etymologically OE vocabulary was.... *
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purely Indo-European
purely Germanic
represented a mixture of Indo-European and Germanic words
The period of Continental borrowings included *
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1- 5 c. AD
5-7 c AD
7-10 c. AD