Слайд 1English Vocabulary in ME period.
Loan words in English.
By Bazarbek
Yerkezhan
Слайд 2Plan:
1.Dialects in early and late ME periods.
2.Evolution of English after
Norman Conquest.
3.Vocabulary in ME period.
4.Loan words in Me period.
Слайд 3An analysis of the vocabulary in the Middle English period
shows great instability and constant and rapid change. Many words
became obsolete, and if preserved, then only in some dialects; many more appeared in the rapidly developing language to reflect the ever-changing life of the speakers and under the influence of contacts with other nations
Слайд 4The principal means of enriching vocabulary in Middle English are
not internal, but external - borrowings.
Слайд 5Two languages in succession enriched the vocabulary of the English
language of the time - the Scandinavian language and the
French language, the nature of the borrowings and their amount reflecting the conditions of the contacts between the English and these languages.
Слайд 6Due to contacts between the Scandinavians and the English-speaking people
many words were borrowed from the Scandinavian language, for example:
Слайд 7Nouns:
law, fellow, sky, skirt, skill, skin, egg, anger, awe, bloom,
knife, root, bull, cake, husband, leg, wing, guest, loan, race
Adjectives:
big,
week, wrong, ugly, twin
Verbs:
call, cast, take, happen, scare, hail, want, bask, gape, kindle
Pronouns:
they, them, their; and many others.
Слайд 8Sometimes an English word and its Scandinavian doublet were the
same in meaning but slightly different phonetically, and the phonetic
form of the Scandinavian borrowing is preserved in the English language, having ousted the English counterpart.
Слайд 9For example, Modern English to give, to get come from
the Scandinavian gefa, geta,
Слайд 10The Norman conquest and the subsequent history of the country
left deep traces in the English language, mainly in the
form of borrowings in words connected with such spheres of social and political activity where French-speaking Normans had occupied for a long time all places of importance.
Слайд 11For example:
- government and legislature:
government, noble, baron, prince, duke, court,
justice, judge, crime, prison, condemn, sentence, parliament, etc.
- military life:
army,
battle, peace, banner, victory, general, colonel, lieutenant, major, etc.
- religion:
religion, sermon, pray, saint, charity
- city crafts:
painter, tailor, carpenter (but country occupations remained English: shepherd, smith)
- pleasure and entertainment:
music, art, feast, pleasure, leisure, supper, dinner, pork, beef, mutton (but the corresponding names of domestic animals remained English: pig, cow, sheep)
- words of everyday life:
air, place, river, large, age, boil, branch, brush, catch, chain, chair, table, choice, cry, cost
- relationship:
aunt, uncle, nephew, cousin.
Слайд 14Literature
1. Расторгуева Т. А. История английского языка М., 2003
2. Ильиш Б. А.
История английского языка Л., 1972
3. Иванова И. П. и др. История
английского языка СМб – 1999
4. Аракин В. Д. История английского языка М., 2003