3 Questions
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
finden
[e:] [e] [--] patēr patěr patros (nominative case, (vocative case, (genitive case, lenghtened stage) normal stage) ______ stage)
reduced
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)
Test your knowledge of Ablaut, the alteration of vowels in linguistics. Learn about qualitative Ablaut and quantitative Ablaut and how it affects word meanings and forms in different languages.
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