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In terms of kingdom in German “Reich”, we have the English word rich. Old English “I” was pronounced as Itch, in some dialects of English, ich (like in German), in some dialects and ik, in some dialects.

this was released soooo long ago, when's the next time?

any updates on the book?

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Fascinating- thanks!

Fascinating!

I think it's cool how lang 3a has a homophone, "a" meaning 'and' and "a" meaning "to (purpose)", I think this is an interesting side effect of deleting labials.

Interestingly, writer is phonemic /ɹaɪdʌ/, but phonetic [ɹaɪɾʌ]. I never knew how to say [ɾ] before I knew this.

This "roban" word is impossible due to the vowel restriction in first syllable

Since "Old English" is obviously another language (pre-Norman invasion and French and Latin influence, and maybe pre-other-Norse influence), I really wish it weren't called English. It should just be called "Anglo-Saxon" (as it is called sometimes). Chaucer's English should be "Old English". Shakespeare's English should be "Middle English", and what we have now should be "Modern English". It's too bad that the terminology turned out to be what it is, as I don't think it's good terminology. "Old" is actually "Pre". "Early Modern" and "Late Modern" are also mouthfuls, and should simply be "Old" and "Middle" respectively... Anyway, thanks for the video!

Strange how you keep on failing to find back pre-existing words: "eat" was already there, right from the start, as "fakwE'

31:39 on the same topic, _aquarium_ gave *évier* /evje/. I think it's even worse...

You already had "swim" the whole time guys... It's at the very top of the dictionnary

We should make a discord where we can practice using old English!!!

As somebody who has a hard time knowing if I'm pronouncing IPA correctly, is there anything that can turn IPA into speech online? I've found a few already but they al ignore some IPA notation such as stresses and long vowels, so it's impossible for me to tell if what I'm writing as IPA 100% correlates with the sounds I'm making

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I do have to ask why in the text, it's spelled "swā" while in some other texts I see it spelled with the old english letter for wynn?

I’ve been watching since conlang with me #1 and enjoyed every second of all of your videos. You hadn’t posted in a while so I checked twitter and saw that you were writing the textbook you showed on stream (Oswald). Congrats! You deserve it!

why you knew this

Congratulations on reaching 6k+ followers! Also, the answer to your riddle is not hard to determine, if you think outside of the box. Because this riddle deals with something water related (a lot of water imagery here), and I am guessing something destructive caused by water, the only things that could come to mind are either waves or icebergs, and since 'waves' were already mentioned..

"ahoron" - a-hurried on"

OK, but does one actually learn the grammar? There is literally no *free* way to learn.

Just realized how small this channel is, you really deserve to be bigger

Similar to Deutsch and Nederlands.

B & E look like a branch

This reminds me of the beginning of an Indian text. I believe the Mahabharat starts out very similar to this.

So accurate 👍

There is a cognate to "ceosel" in German: Kiesel or Kies. Kies means gravel and Kiesel means pebble or shingle 🙂

Minos Prime is proud.

you better help me to learn to pronounce uwulang

You are a marvelous teacher! Throughout my life, I’ve had a miserable time with languages. I want to learn Old English because (as a former English lit major), I want so much to again reread the great literature from the Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf, Sir Gawain, Dream of the Rood, etc, as I dearly love that period of history. Can’t think of a better way to do that than through a better understanding of Old English! ( I know I have ancestors who were Anglo-Saxon. I sometimes imagine how they may have heard these epic stories and poems. So I feel a personal connection to this ancient form of English.) I also studied a bit in college linguistics way back when. (Lol, I had to smile when you mentioned the Great Vowel Shift- heard that before, lol!) But even with all of this to motivate me, I was hesitant to even try. Why? I’ve tried learning languages before. Took Spanish for six years and Koine Greek for a year. Do I know either well enough to have a reading knowledge? Nope, not at all. Although I did well in my classes, I was never taught to think in these languages. And that is why I’m so excited to find you. This is how languages should be taught: Listening to passages, hearing the pronunciations, discussing why and how the sounds differ, giving the brain opportunity to recognize patterns within word structures, discussing meanings. It’s much like how a child learns language. You hear sounds first, then patterns of speech, and then there is a natural progression toward the acquisition of meanings within dialogue or familiar stories. When i listened to your presentation, this made sense to me for the first time in my life. I now understand why I don’t remember a thing from these classes. My brain wasn’t truly acquiring and incorporating the language into my thinking naturally, like a child does on his own. I learned by rote memorization, and it just didn’t stick. I spent hours upon hours on vocabulary lists and verb conjugations, but I was never taught to truly understand the languages and to go through the process of “ interiorizing” them. So I’m very much delighted to have found your site and to learn more about Old English. I guess, as I approach another b-day of my (ahem!) “older” age, I can truly say, “It’s never too late!”

I like Chinese poetry especially Shakespeare in Chinese. The economy, compression and logicality of Mandarin is truly mind-blowing (take the two horizontal lines - the higher longer one means end, finish, no further ((mo), the horizon is blocked) the higher shorter means unfinished, potential even the divine ((wei the horizon is open). Super presentation.

I have a BA in English, never got a grade worse than a B+ in any English class throughout all of my schooling…except for the C I got in Old English in college.

In fact, Stamford in Lincolnshire was a sort of checkpoint Charlie between the Old English speakers and the Danish speakers (in turn bringing in the Scandanvian languages). A superb analysis. Thank you.

Dutch is an SVO language but it uses SOV in relative clauses and VSO for yes or no questions.

It's crazy how many of these words just fit neatly into modern english conventions. The one that really got me was "gyltendum" as in "kingdom of guilt" the guilt we rule over. It's a little clumsy, but you can just read whole prayer as if it were modern English. Father ours, who be in heaven, See thine name behollowed, to become thy reach, beforth thine will on earth so, so in heaven. Our bedailied loaf sell us today, and forgive us our guilt so, so we forgiveth our guiltendom, and do not belead you us in temptation, but release us of evil, soothly.

Todays contemporary English is such a weak pussy language!!!! Much respect to the Old English. From Viti, here on the south of the blue continent (Pacific ocean).

Wow, it’s AWESOME! May I ask you a question about the infinitives (both uninflected and to-) of Old English? I asked Chat GPT to translate the following sentences, and these are the result I got. Could you please check if these are reasonable especially in terms of infinitive and its usage? Thank you in advance. 1. I want to swim - Ic will swīman. 2. I go to swim - Ic gā̆ swīman. 3. I can swim - Ic cann swīman. 4. I have him swim - Ic hæbbe hine geswīmman. 5. I see him swim - Ic sēo hine swīman. 6. I help him swim - Ic helpe hine swīman.

I find the modern editing to add in punctuation and diacritics really interesting, and potentially confusing, in that you seem not to be working from the original text. For instance, on Google, I can't find a single example on the internet of plain text which replicates what's actually written in the surviving manuscript accurately: they all add in punctuation, or change capitalisation, or add diacritics. This must surely seriously potentially change meanings? HǷÆT ǷE GARDE na in ᵹear daᵹum · þeod cẏninᵹa þrẏm ᵹe frunon The claim that 'HǷÆT' is an interjection, for instance, seems hugely suspect when the manuscript doesn't punctuate it so. Not wishing to upset a century-old debate with amateur observations - I'm sure there are many reasons I am wrong! - but surely there's a fairly clear reading which is "What we, of spear-Danes of yesterdays, of folk-kings' force, have found..."? What's the reason for the claim that it's an interjection?

Is the context of the 'swa swa' (+ macrons) bit, 'on earth (as it is) so, so (it is) in heaven'? Or does 'swa swa' intrinsically mean 'as' or 'like'?

There is a modern English descendent of rīce, which is "Bishopric" (i.e. the area over which a Bishop is in charge). Also, "rich" is related, as wealth is / was a proxy measure of power within a kingdom.

Love the video. Love to learn. But please stop waving your hands around; it's really distracting.

Romanization for The Prayer in Cyurdeterder or Кйуъдтдер: Saib uay ajw kia uhkoi lkio lnai prota i, kapa ga Tu ma’i. Tu-kμngtom wa, wi-Tu akan, in teera, y nat uo khta hoжken. Tafthja hkintya metinja ya im ta o, ik na kμngtom, na palan, na glori, eternina’erni. Ame'n.

My proto-language was untypable. It was impossible to re-write and very complicated like Null. (Null is a language with 100 sounds, 50 consonants, and 50 vowels. e.g. Tâ± пะσrô ipe kliبあ tsuna'mi bwaq in dտմд tفrw.)

When will you be putting more up on You Tube?

etan - where I come form in England we say "ete" rather than "ate". Which let's us joke with those who say "ate" 'I ete and apple I loved it I didn't 'ate it" Where 'ate is how we said hate. We also use 'hem" for "them" , "naef" for something of no value amongst other Wessex words that were still in use into the 1960s (I moved to NZ so can't say if they are still used).

A missile?

As a German who learns this in Uni I have 3 weeks to catch up 😂