Differences Among German and Old English

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Universidad NacionalSede Regional Chorotega- Liberia

curso: Diacrona de la lengua Inglesa.Difference among German and Old English

language.

Estudiante: Arianna Cubillo Machena

Profesor: David Villalobos B.

II Ciclo, 2009.


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History

The most important force in shaping OldEnglish was its Germanic heritage in itsvocabulary, sentence structure andgrammar, which it shared with its related

languages in continental Europe. Some ofthese features are shared with the otherWest Germanic languages with which OldEnglish is grouped, while some otherfeatures are traceable to thereconstructed Proto-Germanic languagefrom which all Germanic languages arebelieved to have derived.


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Similarities among old Englishand German.

English and German languages both

belong to the same family, Indo-

european, so they share many features.

The German alphabet has 26 letters as

English alphabet.


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Differences.

The pronunciation

In German there are some cognates, so

there are some words similar to the

English language, but the meaning is so

different.


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Examples.

In the word such as:

Old English German Modern

English

wilcume Willkommen welcome

In the example it is important to mention thesimilary that this word has in spelling, in the two languages

The letters w, lm and e are present.

Also. The change of the letter c in old english by k in german.


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In the following Phrase:

Min nama is, in Old english.

Mein name isIn German.

In this example is

important to analyze thespelling of the words its

almost the same: for instance:In old english min and ingerman Mein, there is anaddition of a sound between

m and i, it is calledephentesis


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In the following word Giese in old

english, and Ja in German, the meaningin modern english is yes.

There is any relation ship in the spealling of those words,

the changes that those words had during hepast of the years was drastically.


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Nese in old english and nein in

german, which means no in modernenglish.

In the example shown before, there isa relationaship among the spealling in the letters n and e,

Both words start with the same spealling, and it has relationshipWih the meaning in modern english.


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In the phase, I don wei nicht in

German language, and in old English Ic

nat.

In this exmple it is important to mention that the pronoun

I keep the letter I in both languages at the begginning

of the sentences. But the rest of the phase is totally

different among languages.


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In the same way, the word Lehrer in

German and Lareow in old english

which means teacher

There is a letter L at the beggining of each

wordm, also there is an addition of a soundhat the middle of the word, which is called

ephentesis


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Bibliography

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http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/langdiff/german.htm.

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http://www.shvoong.com/books/1714073-comparison-english-german-ance

http://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq/history.htm
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