HISTORY OF ENGLISH
Traditionally the history of the English language is divided into … periods.-3
The shift of the Germanic consonants which made them differ from consonants in other Indo-European languages is called ….-Grimm’s Law
The language on the list which is not Germanic is ….-Gaelic
The Germanic language which is not spoken any longer is ….-Frankish
The Germanic language which has borrowed a lot of words from Hebrew and Slavic languages is ….-Yiddish
The Germanic language which has no historical ties with the Netherlands is …-Gothic
The word saga deals with … folklore-Scandinavian
“Younger Edda” and “Older Edda” is a collection of …-sagas
The Germanic tribe that gave the name to one of the Spanish provinces was ….-Vandals
The Germanic language which is not spoken in Europe is ….-Icelandic
The language which had been the literary language of Norway till the beginning of the 20th century was ….-Danish_The_language_that_borrowed_half_of_its_vocabulary_from_French_is….-English_The_German_language_which_does_not_employ_the_Latin_alphabet_is_…._-Yiddish'>Danish
The language that borrowed half of its vocabulary from French is….-English
The German language which does not employ the Latin alphabet is …. -Yiddish
The East Gothic language was spoken in today's ….-Crimea
Yiddish is basically a dialect of ….-German
1,500 years ago the closest language to Old English was ….-Frisian
This language has two main variants called High … and Low ….-German
The Scandinavian language which is one of the two state languages in Finland is ….-Swedish
This European country was named after one of the Germanic tribes.-France
The inhabitants of this European country are called in English with the help of the same word that is used by another Germanic nation to name itself.-Holland
Old English had a lot of borrowings from ….-Danish
Old English noun had … cases.-4
Old English had … genders.-3
The Letter ჳ in Old English corresponded to the sound ….-[g]
The runic alphabet avoided ….-curved lines
The Germanic epic poem which was written in Old English is called …-Beowulf
Runes were not written on ….-paper
There were … Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in Britain.7
The verb system in Old English had … verbals.-3
Old English noun had … numbers.-2
Weak verbs in Old English used to fall into … classes.-3
This case never existed in Old English.-Possessive
This historic event marked the transition from Old English to Middle English.-the Norman conquest
Typologically, Old English was a/an … language.-synthetic
Word stress in Old English was normally ….-fixed
The law that illustrates such changes in modern consonants as was — were, raise — rear, wife — wives is …. -Verner’s Law
The phonetic phenomenon that can be observed in the pairs of words such as sandian — sendan, namnian — nemnan is ….-i-mutation
The actual meaning of the word Oxford is ….-a stretch of shallow water for oxen to cross
The word Thursday comes from the name of ….-Germanic god
d) a Roman feast
The word an egg is of the … origin.-Scandinavian
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