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Ulven wrote:Does anyone know if there's a website where we can just copy and paste a little sample timeline of some basic English phrases that best display the development of the language?
Sander wrote:Nero wrote:Ic eom swiðe éadig, daet we habbað clíewen* for Englisce
*Supposed to mean 'thread', but probably closer to "ball of thread"
Ha! So strange, the word for "ball of thread" in modern Dutch is "kluwen"
O.E. clawu, from P.Gmc. *klawo, from PIE *g(e)l-eu- from base *gel- "to make round, clench." The verb is from O.E. clawian.
Kirk wrote:
I bet those words are related to English "claw."
Or should that be "þanks"
einhar wrote:Another name for Freyr is Inguz or Ing.
Is England derived from this god Ing?
England
O.E. Engla land, lit. "the land of the Angles"
English
"people or speech of England," O.E. Englisc, from Engle (pl.) "the Angles," one of the Gmc. groups that overran the island 5c., supposedly so-called because Angul, the land they inhabited on the Jutland coast, was shaped like a fish hook (but how could they know this from the ground?). The term was used from earliest times without distinction for all the Gmc. invaders – Angles, Saxon, Jutes (Bede's gens Anglorum) – and applied to their group of related languages by Alfred the Great. In pronunciation, "En-" has become "In-," but the older spelling has remained. Meaning "English language or literature as a subject at school" is from 1889.
Angle
member of a Teutonic tribe, O.E., from L. Angli "the Angles," lit. "people of Angul" (O.N. Öngull), a region in what is now Holstein, said to be so-called for its hook-like shape. People from the tribe there founded the kingdoms of Mercia, Northumbia, and East Anglia in 5c. Britain. Their name, rather than the Saxons or Jutes, may have become the common one for the whole group of Gmc. tribes because their dialect was the first committed to writing. Both anglomania (1787) and anglophobia (1793) are first attested in writings of Thomas Jefferson.
skye wrote:Nendûr wrote:Thou shalt die! is they shall die, isn't it?
It's you will die. Thou was a second person singular pronoun (like tu in Spanish), but it went out of use.
And this is not Old English, I think it's Early Modern English (or Shakespearan). Can someone confirm?
I wonder if the grammar of Old English is similar to that of modern German or Dutch? I mean, does OE move the second verb to the end?
And this is not Old English, I think it's Early Modern English (or Shakespearan). Can someone confirm?
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