Language2 Flashcards

1
Q

What futhorc letter is an X
What futhorc letter is a stick
What futhorc lette is an arrow
What futhorc letter is a B
What futhorc letter is an M

A

Gyfu
Īs
Tir
Berc
Eh

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2
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German:
Sondern
Gelangweit
Tierhandlung
Sowohl
Als auch
Gegenseitig
Krank
Kopfschmertzen

A

Rather
Bored
pet shop
Both
As well as
Each other
Bored
Headache

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3
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Define:
Snickersnee
Wandering of the peoples
Expiate
Cajoling
Gregarious

A

A long, dangerous knife
The period in which germanic tribes overran the Roman Empire
make amends for a sin
Force to do something with excessive flattery
Fond of company

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4
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Define:
Finicky
Gabble
Refringent
Pious
Contingency table

A

Hard to please
Talk so fast that people can’t understand you
Can bend light
Very respectfully towards religion
A table with data for two variables, one on the top and one on the side

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5
Q

Why not write the name of a specific school on a college essay

A

Cuz you dont want to send an essay to a school that mentions another school

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6
Q

Define:
Toneme
Chroneme
Liquid(phonetics)
Sandhi
Oxidation number

A

A phoneme that distinguishes lexemes by tone
A phoneme that distinguishes lexemes by duration
A resonant consonant
The process by which a word changes based on its position in an utterance
The number of electrons an atom will gain or lose

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7
Q

Define:
The first germanic sound shift
Verners law

A

Cases of Lenition in proto indo european
The sonorization of non initial unstressed fricatives

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8
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Define:
Adumbrate
Garish
Obtrusively
Nonce word
Kismet

A

Report in outline of foreshadow
Obtrusively showy
In a way that is too noticeable
A word coined for a single occasion
What was determined by destiny

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9
Q

Define:
Hubble flow
Radix

A

The motion of celestial objects as subject to hubbles law
The base of a number system

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10
Q

Object language vs metalanguage
Monolithic language
How many words do you need to know to get by in a language
Undocumented ancestral languages are called
The most well known protolanguage is

A

Metalanguage is language used to describe an object language
One with little internal variation or dialect
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Proto languages
Proto indo European

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11
Q

Two most common language families in Europe
Oldest language in the indo European family
What language family sorts nouns into dozens of classes
Branches of celtic family and which came with the anglo saxons
In what family do you most often find consonant gradation

A

Indo european and finno uralic
The bantu languages
Brytthonic and Goidelic, bytthonic
Uralic languages

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