Seminar 7

Nouns denoting members of the family

• fæder, mōdor, dōhtor, sweostor, sunu

• heorte, nosu, tōþ

• rēad, mycel (large), nīwe (new),

The extent of the OE vocabulary is estimated at__________________ words

• 10-20 thousand

• 20-30 thousand

• 30-40 thousand

English vocabulary, particularly its rich poetic part, has been lost and replaced over centuries mostly by ____________ loanwords.

As to the means of enriching the vocabulary, derivation and composition were more common in OE than _____________

Suffixes were mostly used to build ___________________

• verbs and adjectives

• verbs and nouns

• nouns and adjectives

–ere was the suffix of ________

• masculine

• feminine

• neutral

_________________were formed with the help of the notional words

Which suffix was used to derive patronymics and to show the descent of a person?

• -nes

• -nis

• -inʒ

The most productive suffixes iʒ , -isc, -ful(l), lēas -lic were uused to make___________

• nouns

• verbs

• adjectives

The most productive suffix was -i, which usually caused mutation. This explanition belongs to____________

• nouns

• verbs

• djectives