The History of Early English by Johnson Keith;
Author:Johnson, Keith;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge
(b)Piers Plowman
(i)Find the word translated as ‘dream’. It is obsolete today (the last OED citation is 1840).
(ii)The word translated as ‘but’ made an appearance in the ‘Rough Guide’ to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 7.2. Find this.
(iii)Find the word translated as ‘poor’. This word has come into PDE with a different sense. What is this sense? Can you see how the change in meaning was possible?
(iv)Find the word translated as ‘resting’. Maybe you can work out its connection with a PDE word. (AS)
(v)Swonken is translated as ‘toiled’. What might the infinitive of the ME verb be? (AS)
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