Old English in Action | Episode 2
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2023
- Learn Anglo-Saxon through video! Dr. Colin Gorrie, the founder of the Old English program at the Ancient Language Institute, has developed a video series called "Old English in Action," which introduces key vocabulary and grammar concepts in a totally immersive audio-visual format with, as C.S. Lewis might have said, "no officious Modern English intruding."
The vocab and grammar progression you see in this series corresponds to the progression found in Dr. Gorrie's forthcoming Old English nature method textbook, "Ōsweald Bera." Each episode is meant to accompany the chapter of the same number in "Ōsweald Bera."
Inspiration for this series of videos comes from fellow ALI Fellow Luke Ranieri's "Ancient Greek in Action" video series, which you can find on his ScorpioMartianus channel:
• Ancient Greek in Actio...
Episode 2 includes some animal and food vocabulary, some verbs of motion, and sentences with both singular and plural subjects in Old English.
Learn more about Old English at the Ancient Language Institute: ancientlanguage.com/old-english/
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This is great. Will you make more?
Love it!
Very good! It is most helpful to hear the words pronounced aloud.
This is absolutely Amazing!
I eagerly await the next episode!!🙌
Us too! :)
YES YES YES!
thrilled to see more input-based oe resources.
Thank you!
May I ask, is it just an oddity of "fisc" to change the sċ to sk in the plural, or is this a more widespread thing? Likewise, how did you decide that it would be wyrċan, not wyrcan?
Figuring out where the palatalization applied always requires a bit of detective work, as it was not written directly. For fisċ vs fiscas, a bit of relevant evidence is that we have a form with the s and c in reverse order (metathesis), written as x: fixas. The fact that the two sounds could swap places is evidence that the two were pronounced separately. This also occurs with āscian 'ask', which often appears as āxian. For wyrċan, we can use a different source of evidence, Middle English forms. There we see the descendant word often written with ch, e.g. wurche, weorch, wirche, etc.
@@ColinGorrie Thank you for the explanation! So then, is it safe to say that where I see that metathesis of sc I can expect sk? I note I often see wyrcan spelled "wyrcean" in OE; would that -cea be an indication a syllable is pronounced -ċa? Compare sēcan is often spelled "secean".
@@z.l.burington1183Yes, spelling variations like those are a good guide!
@@z.l.burington1183 Yep, good guide. From what we can tell, some OE scribes seemed to understand that back vowels like /ɑ/, /o/, and /u/, and certain consonants, typically didn't occur next to palatalised consonants like the "ch" sound (prehistorically, those back vowels etc. had blocked palatalisation from happening in those positions). The ones that realised that would often put a silent in between the consonant and the offending back vowel in the words that seemed to be exceptions to the rule. And then those spellings were used by other scribes who learned from them or copied their manuscripts, etc.
As to why there were exceptions to the rule, those words *did* meet the conditions for palatalisation when it was happening, but then later sound changes messed things up. Infinitive verbs like "þyncan", where you have a palatal consonant followed immediately by the "-an" suffix, would have had an /i/ or /ij/ between the consonant and the suffix, which was then deleted in a later sound change (which we can usually see by comparing with cognates in other Germanic languages, where the sounds that deleted in proto-OE were preserved in some form, like Gothic "þugkjan" and Old Norse "þykkja" for OE "þyncan").
Episode 3 ?
Bidan is either sit or wait.
Hint: It's where Modern English "bide" comes from, as in "bide your time".
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Sarf Lundon "naf" - no value - nothing (as in "naf all")