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WorksheetsROUND 1: HISTORY
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The Old Norse word ‘slod’ (track, trail) eventually led to the creation of which current English word?
Sleuth
Slope
Sled
Scale
What is the English borrowing for the Old Norse word "þrift"?
Thrift
Drift
Shift
Gift
The Swedish word poäng, meaning ‘point’, was borrowed from which language?
German
French
Turkish
Danish
The change of meaning of ‘dog’ from a specific breed to any sort of breed is an example of:
Semantic narrowing
Analogical change
Semantic widening
Melioration
‘Tuesday’ is named after which old Norse god?
Tyr
Thor
Njordr
Odin
What is NOT a part of Grimm's Law?
voiceless stops become voiced stops
voiced aspirated stops become fricatives or voiced stops
voiceless stops become voiceless fricatives
voiced stops become voiceless stops
Which language does the work ‘kayak’ originate from?
Norwegian
Halkomelem
Ojibwe
Greenlandic
Danish, Swedish, and English all share the same word origin for ‘window’. However, Swedish uses a very different word: ‘fönster’. Which language does this originate from?
Gothic
Classical Greek
Breton
Latin
Where was Norn once spoken?
Germany
Orkney and Shetland
Faroe Islands
Buchanan Tower
Which English city/town once had the Norse name Jórvík?
Ipswich
York
Wells
Yeovil
Dyr is the Danish/Norwegian word for “animal”. To which modern English word is it related?
Dry
Dog
There
Deer
Grimm’s law applied to which language family?
Germanic
Uralic
Austronesian
Hellenic
A lot of place names in England end with -by (Derby, Kirkby, Whitby), borrowed from Viking settlers. What did -by originally mean in Old Norse?
Pool
Hill
Land
Town
‘Window’ comes from the early Norse combination of which two words?
‘Glass’ and ‘look’
‘Wind’ and ‘eye’
‘Through’ and ‘see’
‘Pulp’ and ‘straw’
True or false: Grimm’s law was first discovered by one of the brothers Grimm in 1822:
True
False
"Proto-language" means...
Before writing system was developed
The descendant of a language
The historical prototype of a dead language
The ancestral/parent language
The family tree model of language assumes a genetic relationship between languages:
that derived from the same ancestral language
that look similar
that are not related through cognates
that developed in the same area
Saying, ‘Skål!’ is a way of saying ‘Cheers!’ in Scandinavian languages. This expression comes from the Old Norse word for which object?
Mead
Cup
Bowl
Feast
The epic poem Beowulf was originally written in which language?
Old Norse
Old English
Spanish
Icelandic
Which of these English/Scandinavian word pairings do NOT have a related origin?
hound, hund
fowl, fågel
star, stjerne
penguin, pengar
