ENG385H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Robert Lowth, Parataxis, Great Vowel Shift
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Pie voiceless stops become germanic voiceless fricatives podiatrist vs. foot. Words with /p/ /t/ /k/ tenuous vs. thin coronary vs. heart must have been borrowed later, from non-germanic langs. Germanic langs. place emphasis on the first syllable of words walk/walked. Common stress found in native oe vocab, older loanwords. More likely to make compounds or to add affixes to existing wrds than adopt new wrds. It"s like german, where handschuh = hand + shoe = glove, etc. upastignesse = up + astig (moving) + ness. Many latin words (father); latin word translated part-by-part into old english patriarch = patri + arch, so english scribes saw this and made the oe. Oe and middle english eoe took a very small number of loanwords from other languages. Meaning usually meaning; became became narrower, i. e. semantically different more specific word heahfaeder. Rood meaning rod later means cross (think dream of the. Old english borrowed terms for government, body parts.
