LING 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Old High German, Erythrism, Decagon

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 110
• Professor: Yourie Pankrats

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: "red" (native english): the dictionary gives you the following information: [ me, fr. Oe read; akin to ohg rot red" , l ruber & rufus, gk erythros] (bef. * check abbreviations, pp. 36a-37b mwcd: and the meaning/meanings ( of the colour red") Now you should use your knowledge of systematic consonant correspondences: "r" is the same in english, latin, greek; "d" in. English but "b"/ "f" in latin and "th" in greek. [ruber, rufus, erythros], but with some different shape: e. g. : ruby, rubric, rubella, (latinate) and erythrism (greek). How do we find the borrowing word for the greek word/words that is cognate with. You have a hint sitting in the word given. Now you know that the first consonant of a cognate (greek or latinate) should be d. Oe tiene akin to : ohg zehan "ten", l decem, gk deka] Next stage: again dictionary: deka- or dek- - see deca-