Anglo-Saxon Again

Old English - Spoken! · Anglo-Saxon Again

Can Germans understand Old English? | Language Challenge | Part 2 | Feat. @Simon Roper
Ecolinguist | 24 Nov. 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve7JLIYnuD0

hwat doth we heo dæg - what do we do today?

I spelled it wrong, heodæg is one word (=heute)

sum mann wæs on hæfe (?)
some man was on the (?)

hæðe - I heard a v sound!

6:28 For Simon Roper - do you think "on" for "in" was a calque on the Latin usage where "in" means both, and also with accusative "into" and "onto"?

7:37 se heofon hæbt fremmedde bleow
Heaven has a strange wind(?)
There is a strange wind in the sky(?)

bleo = colour ! I had no idea of this word!

9:55 Is there a cognate for modern English "blow" that sounds similar?

11:58 The only thing I get is the not very topical "þu spriecst soðlice" = you speak truly

12:48 Who lives in that house?
Edward
The woodwork is rotted.
You speak truly, but he doesn't have enough ... wealth(?) .... woodland (?)
I can give part of my wood
You are very generous!

16:40 closest cognate for soþ is obviously "sooth."
Forsooth = truly.
Soothsayer = Wahrsager

16:54 I think I can detect a real cognate in German and Swedish.
"Gesund" in German, "sund" in Swedish - both mean sane or healthy.

And a "sane" word or a "healthy" word is one that serves the purpose of communicating truth.

17:39 No, it's not common to all West-Germanic, it is in fact Anglo-Frisian.

[Nasal + Fricative > Fricative with lengthening of previous vowel]

18:52 Count on a Swede to miss the even more obvious nd in "sand" - in Swedish it is spelled "sann!"

Old English - Spoken!

Old English - Spoken! · Anglo-Saxon Again

Old English vs German | Can they understand spoken Old English? | Part 1
Ecolinguist | 25.X.2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFPBJRkFVTc

2:01 wulf?

[someone deleted my dictation from OE in the comment between the previous and the following]

bera ....4:44

3:47 Here is the setup - 1st and 2nd have cognates in German, 2nd and 3rd in English. 1st lacks cognate (for verb) in English, 3rd lacks cognate (for verb) in German.

6:52 Ribes ribes?
You just said it is black or red and that it is sweet and with many ...? ... ? ...

"with many berries gemaked"?

Other answer could be wine, if "sweart" = red and "reath" = white in this context - fits "gemacod" better.

"made with many balls!"

Yes, blackberries do have lots of small balls composing them ...

I heard "bearrum" (I guessed berries) for "beallum" - balls.

And blackberries are sweeter than ribes ribes, forgot what Ribisl / Johannisbeeren are in English.

12:05 I do not have a reference to an actual text, but if I had composed it (with sufficient knowledge in OE vacabulary and endings) I'd keep "beallum" in the dative plural, obviously, but ... wait, the instrumental for adjectives and pronouns is only for the singular, so in plural it would still be just dative?

Would a plural corresponding to a singular in instrumental rather be dative or mid + dative?

13:00 hie mahton seon, hie beoth twa, hie mahton brun, bleaw othe green beon - iegen (eyes).

16:17 Did I get "iegen" correctly as the plural of "eage"?

Комнатный лингвист

@Hans-Georg Lundahl it is eagan

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@Комнатный лингвист Thank you.

And, just checking, Mt 9:29 þa æt-ran he heora eagen cweðende syo inc æfter yncre ge-leafen.