Languge8 Flashcards
Define
Sinecure
Substantiate
Fracture(linguitics)
A position with many benefits but requiring little work
Support with evidence
The transformation of a vowel into a diphthong
Define:
Querulous
Malapert
Distrain
Ungrammatical
Ablation
Arrogate
Brite
Whining petulantly
Boldly disrespectful to authority
Seize property as payment
Grammatically incorrect
Removal of something
Take without justification
To be or become overripe
The two main divisions of the goths
Which was frendlier to the romans
Which founded the kingdom of asturias
The visigoths migrated to gaul and Iberia from where
Which sacked the western Roman Empire and when
The empire of which ruled Italy in the fifth century, who destroyed thag empire
visigoths and ostrogoths
The visigoths
The visigoths
The region north of the danube
The Visigoths in 410
the ostrogoths, the byzantines
Archaic:
Smite
Blore
Implore
Trifle
Glaive
Sublime
Thon
Bookcraft
A heavy hit with a weapon
To cry
To beg for
To try
Act of talk frivolously
Sword
Elevate to a high degree of moral excellence
That on
Literary skikk
Define:
consonant disgraph
Eye dialect
Appurtenance
Doctrine
A grapheme of two consonants
A writers deliberate use of nonstandard spelling
An item associated with a particular style of living
A set of beliefs held by a group
Old English verbs
To have to
Will or want
To make
To have Skill of something
To steal
To show
Sculan
Willan
Scieppan
Cunnon
Stelan
Sceawian
What two things can make the stem of a word
What language relates a nouns meaning to its class
Perfective vs imperfective vs frequentative aspect
Realis vs irrealis mood
A root and derivational morpheme
Chinese
Perfective is done, imperfective is not, frequentative id usually done
Realis is fact and irrealis is not
Latin
Estne Domus cara, carior est
Is the house expensive, it is more expensive
When did the dinos live
What ice age are we in
The mesozoic era
The quaternary glaciation
What part of engla land was heavily influenced by the scandinavian, what dialect was it
Example of breaking in old English, in what dialect did it happen, in what dialect did it not happen
The north, Dialect Northumbrian
Ald into eald, west saxon, anglian
According to a study how many years does a doctor save patients over their whole career
How much has medicine increased average life expectancy
What things increased life expectancy more than medicine
100
A bit
Better nutrition and improved saniated
