
Episode 51: Norse Words and a New English
The History of English Podcast
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Norse Words - What Are They?
Drafht, dregs and dredge are all cognate with draw and drag. And they all develop from that original sense of dragging or pulling something. So those are some norse words which can be identified based upon the change of the g sound in old english. But as we know by now, there were other sound changes well. One sound which is very closely related to the g sound is the k sound. In fact, those two sounds are basically the same. So the k sound also underwent changes in old English. The modern word church became a c h sound when it appeared before a front vowe. For a water container, old english had chatl where nor
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