- •Sometime between the 15th and 10th c b.C
- •Point out the act of Grimm's law the following examples belong to:
- •Point out the act of Grimm's law the following examples belong to:
- •Point out the act of Grimm's law the following examples belong to:
- •Point out the act of Grimm's law the following examples belong to:
- •With mining and plunder
- •Castra, Woolwich, Greenport
- •Voicing
- •Old Scandinavian
With mining and plunder
Choose correctly the number of words used by Shakespeare in his works: С)20.000
Choose correctly the country the following words were borrowed from: cockatoo, chintz.
С)India
Choose correctly the name of the first Indo – European speakers to arrive on the land mass now called England: С)The Celts
Choose correctly what Hardrian’s wall represented.
В)the border line between the Roman empire and the Celtic territory
Choose correctly the total number of Scandinavian borrowings in English : B)900 words
Choose correctly the Celtic language which was spoken in Cornwall till the 18-th c. B)Cornish
Choose correctly the name of the author of the great work “The Ecclesiastical History of the English people”. A) The Venerable Bede
Choose correctly the date of the first Viking raid in England.: D)787
Choose correctly the dates of King Alfred’s life: D)849-899
Choose correctly the number of the main regions the Danelaw comprised: D)5
Choose correctly the name of the person elected to succeed Edward the Confessor
B) Harold Godwin (son)
Choose correctly the number of Scandinavian borrowings which belong to Standard English. B)700
Find out the Old East Germanic language in the list given below. D) Gothic
Point out the survival of the Gaelic branch in Ireland. C)Erse
Choose correctly the language the following words were borrowed from: law,
husband, bulk, egg, happy, ugly. A) Old Scandinavian
38. Choose the dates of the 2nd period in the history of English - Written OE. D)700-1066
Define the case the OE noun tala (-ena) belongs to. B)Genetive
Define the case the OE noun mūsum(root - stem., F) belongs to. C)Dative
Determine the class of the strong verb helpan. B)3
Determine the form of the OE weak verb dēmde. B) Past Tense
Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective bettra.
D) Comparative
Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective softest. C)Superlative
Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective ieldra.
A) Comparative
Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective ealdest.
C) Superlative
Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective māra.
B) Comparative
Choose correctly the form of the degree of comparison of the OE adjective wēriƷra.
A) Comparative
Choose correctly the words which belong to the 1st layer of Latin borrowings.
A) pund, ynce, flasce
Choose correctly the words which belong to the 2nd layer of Latin borrowings.
Castra, Woolwich, Greenport
What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:
Other OG languages OE NE
Gt. sibun [v] seofon [v] seven
A) Voicing
What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:
Other OG languages OE NE
Gt. huzd hord hoard
C) Rhotacism
What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:
Other OG languages OE NE
Gt. maiza māra more
C) Rhotacism
What consonant change is illustrated by the following pairs of words:
Other OG languages OE NE
Gt. kiusan [s] cēosan [z] choose