Different chronological layers of native words (Indo-European, Common Germanic презентация

Different chronological layers of native words (Indo-European, Common Germanic and Old English native words) Выполнила: Студентка ПП\с-18-2-1 Щирова Александра

The full extent of the OE vocabulary is not known to present-day scholars. There is no doubt that many words have not been recorded in the extant texts . Modern estimates of the total vocabulary of OE range from about thirty thousand words to almost one hundred thousand, —the latter figure being probably too high and unrealistic. Despite the gaps in the accessible data, philological studies in the last centuries have given us a fairly complete outline of the OE vocabulary The full extent of the OE vocabulary is not known to present-day scholars. There is no doubt that many words have not been recorded in the extant texts . Modern estimates of the total vocabulary of OE range from about thirty thousand words to almost one hundred thousand, —the latter figure being probably too high and unrealistic. Despite the gaps in the accessible data, philological studies in the last centuries have given us a fairly complete outline of the OE vocabulary

Etymologically the Old English word-stock consisted of: Etymologically the Old English word-stock consisted of:

What is a native word? Practically, the term «native» describes words that existed in the English word-stock of the 7th century. In a far broader sense, «native» denotes words whose origin cannot be traced to any other language

Indo - European words Words belonging to the common IE layer constitute the oldest part of the OE vocabulary. This layer embraced the following thematic groups: body, plants,terms of kingship, agricultural words.

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Common Germanic words Common Germanic Vocabulary includes words which are shared by most Germanic languages, but do not occur outside the group. These words are connected with nature, the sea and everyday life of Teutons.

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OE formations with native roots – always, all the preposition, link verb. OE formations with native roots – always, all the preposition, link verb.

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