<p> History of English, Workshop 2, 15 February 2007.</p><p>This is an exercise in the use of Douglas Harper’s webpage, Etymonline at http://www.etymonline.com.</p><p>In the table on the next page there is a list of modern English words. Your job is to find which of them came from Old Norse, and which are native English words. You can look these words up in an etymological dictionary, or use Etymonline.</p><p> In column 1 the following abbreviations are used: n noun a adjective v verb p pronoun  In the second column put E if the word is native English, and N if it is a Norse loanword.  In the third column, give the modern Icelandic form, if it exists. This will be a word with roughly the same meaning and the same form.  In the fourth column, give the lost OE form if it has been recorded. This is the word that has been replaced by the Norse word in Modern English. For instance, window is from Norse vindauga, which replaced the OE form éagþyrel; and root is from Norse rót, and has replaced the cognate OE form wyrt , which gives modern wort.  In the fifth column, give the modern English form of the word in column 4, if it exists.</p><p>1 2 3 4 5 Modern ON/Icelandic lost Modern English English E - N form OE form word from lost OE bait n ball n both a cake n call v cast v cow n (the animal) cow v (intimidate) dirt n egg n fellow n flat a gap n gate n get v help v law n leg n lift v loan n loose a low a mistake v near a odd a race n raise v root n same a scant a score v seat n sick a sister n skill n skin n skirt n sky n swain n sword n take v them p they p thrust v thwart a weak a window n wrong a</p><p>Originally set Feb 2006 PK</p>