« From Germany | Main | Air Force One... »

July 10, 2005

Update

Hello again. Sorry for neglecting the weblog for the past few days. Believe it or not, I have not yet gotten over the jet-lag and still fall asleep in the afternoon and get-up in the middle of the night.

Other than that, I have been trying to give myself a crach course in Indo-European linguistics, since I realised I don't know many basic things of phonology and morphology. In this quest, I have found out many interesting things which I will write about later.

Meanwhile, how many words can you count in English that have been borrowed from Old Norse?

Posted by Khodadad at July 10, 2005 01:33 AM

Comments

Hi Khodadad,

You have been posting more often than me, so you have not exactly been neglectful! :)

Hmmm, Old Norse. How about Thor, Oden, Valhalla, berserkers, or valkyries? Well, I guess these are not exactly in common usage. :) Most people have heard of Vikings, though.

Posted by: David at July 10, 2005 09:54 PM

David, how about "get" and "egg"? There are much more common words than those you mentioned which come from Old Norse!

Thanks for the visit pal...

Posted by: Khodadad at July 11, 2005 11:29 AM