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Old Icelandic bera (to give birth) – barn (baby) Old High German stelan (to steal) – ______ (stole)
Old Icelandic bera (to give birth) – barn (baby) Old High German stelan (to steal) – ______ (stole)
stal
Latin tego (to cover, to cloth) – toga (clothes) German ______ - fand
Latin tego (to cover, to cloth) – toga (clothes) German ______ - fand
finden
[e:] [e] [--] patēr patěr patros (nominative case, (vocative case, (genitive case, lenghtened stage) normal stage) ______ stage)
[e:] [e] [--] patēr patěr patros (nominative case, (vocative case, (genitive case, lenghtened stage) normal stage) ______ stage)
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Study Notes
Etymology and Language Relationships
- Old Icelandic language has a verb "bera" meaning "to give birth", related to the noun "barn" meaning "baby".
- Old High German language has a verb "stelan" meaning "to steal", related to the past tense "stole".
- Latin language has a verb "tego" meaning "to cover" or "to clothe", related to the noun "toga" meaning "clothes".
- German language has a verb with a past tense "fand" (no specific verb stem provided).
Comparative Linguistics
- The Latin word for "father" has different forms in different grammatical cases:
- Nominative case: patēr
- Vocative case: patěr
- Genitive case: patros
- Lenghtened stage: (no specific form provided)
- Normal stage: (no specific form provided)
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