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    This document provides instructions and examples for several exercises on the history of the English language. It asks the student to use the Oxford English Dictionary to find early meanings and dates for sample words. It also has exercises matching Proto-Indo-European roots to Latin and Germanic cognates, applying Grimm's Law to map consonant shifts, transcribing Old English words reflecting phonetic changes, and completing words demonstrating i-umlaut fronting. The goal is to help students trace the development of words from their Proto-Indo-European origins through Latin and Germanic influences to modern English.

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    This document provides instructions and examples for several exercises on the history of the English language. It asks the student to use the Oxford English Dictionary to find early meanings and dates for sample words. It also has exercises matching Proto-Indo-European roots to Latin and Germanic cognates, applying Grimm's Law to map consonant shifts, transcribing Old English words reflecting phonetic changes, and completing words demonstrating i-umlaut fronting. The goal is to help students trace the development of words from their Proto-Indo-European origins through Latin and Germanic influences to modern English.

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    This document provides instructions and examples for several exercises on the history of the English language. It asks the student to use the Oxford English Dictionary to find early meanings and dates for sample words. It also has exercises matching Proto-Indo-European roots to Latin and Germanic cognates, applying Grimm's Law to map consonant shifts, transcribing Old English words reflecting phonetic changes, and completing words demonstrating i-umlaut fronting. The goal is to help students trace the development of words from their Proto-Indo-European origins through Latin and Germanic influences to modern English.

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    FIRST PORTFOLIO TASK (REHEARSAL)

    HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

    1. Use the OED to find information on the words given below.

    WORD Earliest meaning Date of Earliest


    earliest example of
    example the current
    meaning

    Child

    Boy

    Kill

    Broadcast

    Horn

    2. Following GRIMM’S LAW, match column A with column B and


    explain the correspondence.

    A B

    Foot Cardiac

    Tooth Gentle

    Father Trauma

    Kind Pedal

    Horn Grain

    Heart Progeny

    Hound Cornet
    Kin Paternal

    Thrash Canine

    Corn Dental

    3. Following Grimm’s law, complete the words with the correct


    consonant

    Original proto-Indo- Latin, Greek Cognates Germanic


    European word Cognate
    *pisk ("fish") pisces (Lat. "fish") _ish (English)
    (cf. pesco in Spanish) _isc (Anglo-
    Saxon)
    *pel ("skin") pellis ("pelt") _ell (German,
    "animal hide")

    *portu- ("passage") portus (Lat. "entryway") _ord


    (cf. portal and port in English)
    *ped- ("foot") pes / ped(em) (Lat. "foot") _oot
    pod-, pos- (Greek, "foot")

    (cf.
    English pedal, pedometer, bipedal, podiatry,
    and cephalopod, or pie in Spanish and
    French)
    *ters- ("thirsty, dry") torrere (Lat, "to dry") _irst
    *tonuh- ("loud") tonare (Lat. "to make noise") _under

    (cf. tone and tune in English)


    *korn- ("horn") cornu (Lat. "horn") _orn

    cf. Modern English cornucopia ("horn of


    plenty") and coronet ("crown")
    *ker- ("beast," "deer") cervus (Lat. "hart") _hart
    *kwod quod (Lat.) _hat (Old
    English hwaet)
    *kel- ("covering," or celare (Lat. "to hide") _all
    "sealed in")
    (cf. English cellar)
    *kemtom ("hundred") centum (Lat. "hundred") _undred

    (cf. English century, percent)


    4. How would you transcribe these OE words? Which two phonetic
    phenomena do they reflect?

    Ceosan “to choose” k / tʃ

    Lufian “love” f / v

    5. What phonetic phenomenon do these examples illustrate?

    pre-OE *⎯ seah < *sæx ‘he saw’ eall < *æłł ‘all’ heard < *hærd ‘hard’ b.
    pre-OE * feoh < *fex ‘cattle’ eolh < *elx ‘elk’ steorra < *sterra ‘star’

    6. Complete this exercise following the i-umlaut change (fronting)

    _________ (<* manni-iz ), men .


    _________ (* wull-in ), woollen.
    _________ (<* mūs-iz), mice.
    __________ (<* fōt-iz ), feet.

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