On what basis are classes of strong verbs distinguished? How to determine the verb’s belonging to one class or another?
The class of verbs represented below was very productive in Old English period. What is its peculiarity?
mācian (to do) - mācode - mācodon - mācod;
lufian (to love) - lufode - lufodon - lufod;
hopian (hope) - hopode - hopodon - hopod;
On what basis are the classes of weak verbs distinguished from strong verbs? What means are used to create them?
Weak verbs (also known as regular verbs), grammatically, are verbs which end in -ed, -t, -or -d when they're put into the past tense. Examples include walked, jogged, and blinked. A strong verb, in the grammatical sense, changes the vowel in the present tense form of the word when it's put into past tense.
How ordinal numbers were formed in Old English? Give some examples
In Modern English, for most numbers, we just add the suffix "-th" to the cardinal form of the number to form an ordinal, as in "nine" - "ninth". Similarly, in Old English, the normal basic suffix to form ordinal forms from cardinal numbers was "-þa", but sometimes it varied slightly.
What Indo-European language families do you branchesknow?
The Indo-European family is divided into several or subfamilies. It consists of numerous Indo-Iranian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, and Farsi (Persian); Greek; Baltic languages such as Lithuanian and Latvian; Celtic languages such as Breton, Welsh, and Scottish and Irish Gaelic; Romance languages such as French, Spanish, Catalan, and Italian; Germanic languagessuch as German, English, and Swedish; and Slavic languages such as Polish and Serbian.
What groups of Germanic languages do you know?
Scholars often divide the Germanic languages into three groups: West Germanic, including English, German, and Netherlandic (Dutch); North Germanic, including Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Faroese; and East Germanic, now extinct, comprising only Gothic and the languages of the Vandals, Burgundians
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