Question 1

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Question 1

• What is proto-indo-european?

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Question 2

• What is Grimms Law?

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Question 3

• What is the Great Vowel Shift?

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Question 4

• What is the traditional dates for the Middle
  English Period?

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Question 5

• What happened to the Indo-European /p/ in
  Germanic languages.

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Question 6

• How did a speaker of Middle English pronounce
  house and mouse?

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Question 7

• What happened to the /x/ from earlier stages of
  English?

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Question 8

• Explain the origin of the irregular plurals oxen,
  feet, and children?

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Question 9

• Do we have any traces of case endings in modern
  English?

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Question 10

• Name 3 languages in each of the following
  language families?
• Celtic
• Germanic
• Italic
• Slavic