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    1

    Historia de la Lengua Inglesa

    Mock Exam

    1.What types of linguistic change do the following examples illustrate? Explain

    1.1 OE bryd – PdE bird


    1.2 ME glimsen – PdE glimpse
    1.3 OE brydguma – PdE bridegroom
    1.4 ME an ekename – PdE a nickname

    2. What types of linguistic change do the following examples illustrate?


    2.1. IE *pǝtér > OE fæder [PdE. father]
    2.2. L. māter OE mōdor
    2.3. OE fōt (sg.) – fēt (pl.) [PdE: foot-feet]
    2.4. OE ðunor > PdE. thunder

    3. Translate the following OE sentence into PdE and answer the questions:

    3.1. What kind of nouns are eorþe and sunne?

    3.2 Comment on the case of þære eorþan and mancynne?

    4. The following words had the same root vowel in Old English. Account for the
    different vowel that they have in present-day English.

    4.1. child - children


    4. 2. wide - width

    5. Cursor Mundi (c. 1300)

    Text Translation
    1Adam had pasid nine hundret yere Adam had passed nine hundred years
    2 Nai selcut þof he wex unfere No wonder though he waxed infirm
    3 Forwroght wit his hak and spad Exhausted with his hoe and spade
    2

    4. Of himself he wex al sad Of himself he waxed all weary.


    4. He lened him þan apon his hak He leaned him then upon his how
    6. Wit Seth his sun þusgat he spak With Seth his son this-way he spoke
    7. Sun, he said, þou most now ga Son, he said, thou must now go
    8. To Paradis þat I com fra To Paradise that I came from
    9. Til Cherubin þat þe yate ward... To Cherubim that the gate guards...
    10. Þus he said I sal þe sai Thus he said I shall to-thee say
    11. Howgate þou sal tak þe wai How thou shalt take the way

    Questions:

    a) Explain the spelling of: sun (6, 7) < OE sunu; now (7) < OE nū, þou (7) < OE
    þū

    b) Comment on the spellings nai (2), ga (7) and fra (8)

    c) Comment on the spelling /s/ in sal (10, 11)

    d) Find 4 Scandinavian borrowings in the text

    hak, howgate, þusgat, wexed

    e) Explain the zero plural in nine hundret yere (1)

    f) Comment on use of relatives

    g) Comment on word order in: Til Cherubin þat þe yate ward. (9).. I sal þe sai
    (11)

    6. Comment on the sections printed in bold in the following:

    a) By Naomi her instruction Ruth lieth at Boaz his feet (Old Testament)

    b) For all the Welchmen hearing thou wert dead,

    Are gone to Bolingbroke, dispersed, and fled (Shak. Richard II)

    c) Methinks I am a prophet new inspired,

    And thus, expiring, do fortell of him (Shak. Richard II)

    d) Or as a moat defensive to a house,


    Against the envy of less happier lands (Shak. Richard II)
    3

    e) I think my wife be honest and think she is not. (Shak. Othello)

    f) While meate was bringing in (Dekker, The shoemaker’s holiday)

    7. Explain the origin of the following doublets in Middle English:


    a) chest --- kist (‘wooden box’)
    b) catch --- chase
    c) warden -- guardian

    8. Why is the following rhyme no longer possible in Present-day English?


    Thou chidest me well: proud Bolingbroke, I come
    To change blows with thee for our day of doom
    (Shak. Richard II)

    9. Explain the meat/meet merger.

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