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Episode 8: Indo-European Grammar (Where have all the inflexions gone?)

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The Different Forms of the Word Horse

There were lots of different versions of the word horse, depending on exactly how you were using that word in the sentence. Equos eque, equam equosio, equo equod equo equo. This change actually occurred during the old english period when invading vikings and their danish relatives settled in a large portion of britain. These old norse speakers lived and traded and sometimes married with anglo saxons who spoke a different germanic language with different inflections.

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