Lads come on. If you look at the way languages mutate and merge surely you can see that’s pretty much the same for nations and races? It’ll all work out in the end, trust me. Plus let’s not let Simon’s beautiful channel be a place of hate!
This is the first video from this channel that I’ve watched. I was really puzzled by what kind of aesthetic there was going on here until I got to the explanation 😆!
Because of this channel I've started the journey of learning how to read, write and speak Old English. Can't thank you enough for kindling this interest.
So solid and calming, Simon. In an upended world, you remind us that the earth continues to turn and spring will still come. Talking about the past like this gives me a sense of grounding and permanence. Thank you.
I love these types of videos with history, linguistics, and a bit of mythology! Your pronunciation is so natural and fluid, too. And the segments with all the wildlife and nature is always beautiful! I can’t wait to see more!
Endlessly fascinating and the presentation makes me feel like I'm listening to an extremely knowledgeable friend talk. This episode has the feel of Springwatch: 978AD edition
What is the most common way, because I call it spring with more of a Dutch accent when I am speaking and the friend I usually talk to in Dutch doesn't really correct me
@@wolsch3435 Veronika, der Lenz ist da, die Mädchen singen tralala. Die ganze Welt ist wie verhext, Veronika, der Spargel wächst! I agree with the answers before: The Dutch word "lente" is a real cognate of the word lencten in old english.
I love the fact, that you always manage to show something unrelated to the topic, but funny or beautiful like that nature footage. It's like you never know what it's gonna be this time.
Simon's videos are very compelling, as well as educational. I thought the beginning was quite poignant. It made me focus on how difficult the current social isolation must be on the young. When I was Simon's age, I wanted to go out all the time, and staying home would have been really burdensome. If an event I was really looking forward to was cancelled, I would have been disappointed for weeks. We need to give kudos to today's youth who make the sacrifices to keep us older people safe.
I absolutely agree with commentators and voters (930 : 0 thus far). These short, calm essays are wonderful to listen to and watch, with the farm and nature footage as a background. I also appreciate the philologic and scientific accuracy (e.g. 5:20) in all your videos. So, as always super enjoyable stuff. Have a lovely lent and dear greetings from the continent!
I love the social context that you provide in the last five minutes of the video, talking about food stores and their influence over daily life throughout the year. It paints a clear picture of what life was like in the ancient world.
I'm late to this video but I just wanted to say that I absolutely love all your videos. You have such a great way of speaking and your videos have a lovely chatty vibe. Thanks for making them!
I discovered you through Norbert's channel. I love hearing your stories. Thank you for telling them barefoot in the countryside. I love the mood of the videos.
In Dutch we have a lot of similar words to old English : spring = lente, flowers = bloemen, fruit = ooft ( coming from a word for fruit on trees later meaning all fruit then becoming more archaic but it is still modern Dutch ) bees = beien, eggs = eieren, cow= koe, cheese = kaas or keeës, church = kerk
Simon your work is genuinely some of the most fascinating stuff I have found on TH-cam. Really appreciate it mate. Hope you and yours are happy, safe and endowed with toilet paper - from Brisbane, Australia
I’m always amazed how the English language came into being, how it continually evolves and how it became the language of the world, I’m actually quite proud it’s my mother tongue although hailing from south Lancashire with the heavy accent I have some would argue I don’t speak English at all 🤣
Jonny Birchall My daughter and I are eager to travel to Lancashire to see the lands my great-great grandfather farmed, just to hear the language, the birds, and smell the air. Yes, it is still farmland. The homes of my US great-great grandparents are now freeways and strip malls.
I really enjoy all of your videos and I am very greatful to whatever algorithm that videos showed up in my TH-cam feed. I love anthropology and I'm enjoying all of the information I've been able to learn from your videos durring this covid-19 quarantine. I think we may be kindred spirits in the least spiritual way possible and I thank you for sharing your knowledge
Coming from the old english interviews, I see the dude sit down, pour a drink, and think "here we go, about to not understand a word that's being said." And then he speaks new english and my brain needed to adjust.
@4:33 a couple of years back I was letting myself into my house when a bee flew right across my face and embedded itself into a hole in the wooden number 8 denoting part of my house number. Next morning when I checked the hole had a wax covering. It was nearly a year later when this bee baby busted out from its waxy chamber. The hole has been lonely of a solitary bee since.. :@/
Thank God there are people like you saving the history, culture, and language of Old England. Every video is amazing! I am Polish and I appreciate people like you saving what is a blatant erasure/destruction of historical U.K. and its people. Don’t allow the globalists to erase us!
Xanadu84 I am born American, but throughout my 50 years I have gone back and forth to Poland, even studying a semester at Poznan University. I regret losing my dual citizenship when Poland joined the EU (I did not renew my passport in time). I could still get it back but it will cost money. Before the fall of Communism, there were homes that had straw roofs, outdoor privies, and limited plumbing. But Polish culture was everywhere and I believed Communism ironically helped the Eastern block countries to maintain their ethnic/cultural identities. I do not like the EU. Modern entertainment is full of Illuminati or Satanic symbolism. I am not a “tin-foil” hat conspiracy theorist. But I hate Hollyweird (Hollywood). Poland is about families and community. The EU (mainly nihilist Germany) is pushing the destruction of faith, family, and community and replace it with “daddy” government.
I think Dutch might be more suited to show cognates with Old English than German is, as Dutch is more closely related than German to English, and the cognates are more similar. However, Dutch is not as well known as German, so people might not see the point as clearly.
Ooit eens gehoord over Anglish? Als je de typische klankverschuivingen door hebt die plaats hebben gevonden in de overgang van Proto-Germaans naar Oud-Franks/Oud-Nederlands tot het hedendaagse Nederlands en die van het Proto-Germaans naar het Oud-Engels tot het hedendaagse Engels, dan is het enorm geinig hoe die woorden er nog zijn. Neem een kijkje: anglish.fandom.com/wiki/English_Wordbook
Michael K. True, Low Saxon is closer to English than Dutch is (with Frisian being even closer) but the problem is that Low Saxon has no standardised form, making it more difficult to use as an example
Jim Havelaar Not wrong. Since 2018 there is however an orthography for Low Saxon that can be applied for the whole Low Saxon area (Dutch and German border), it’s called the Nysassiske Skryvwyse (New Saxon Spelling, Niewsaksische Schrijfwijse in Dutch). Orthographies before only covered parts / dialectal areas of the language.
I grew up in a farming community of 400 people in New Hampshire in the 40s and 50s. Young heifers, up to about a year old, not yet cows were called “neat stock”. The town was settled by English settlers of course and I wonder if you happen to recognise the origin of the term or perhaps will run into it in the earlier stages of our language. It was actually a legal term and appeared in ur tax code and the town report would say how many neat stock had been taxed. The rate was lower than for a productive animal of course. I really like your work because it includes the life of the people and the broader context of the language. I enjoy older forms of our language such as reading a Middle English play the Harrowing of Hell over Easter. I don't get it all, but a can understand a lot of it. My mother taught me to read Middle English with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. My grandmother spoke German so the earlier Anglo Saxon you speak is from the same developmental lineage. Really enjoy your work.
A pleasing comment- as an upholder of Anglish, it is nice to be reminded of how much the English tongue does still share with the other Germanic speeches. While thankfully spider is also Germanic (going back literally meaning spinner) the term 'attercop' is still rarely used in Modern English for spider, as is 'atter' for poison, pus, etc in dialects. It is why we call spiderwebs 'cobwebs', since 'cop' meant spider. Good day!
Thank you / Mange ( OE monege / many) tak 🤗 Ja [yah], vi [ve] kan nær [nair] tal{k}e en simpel Engelsk allerede fra dag en 😉 Du kan ofte se hvad mening simple Danske {w}ord{s} efter just få [foa] ( (a) few ) sekunder 😊
Yes, we call the web a "spind" [ spin*] and a spider are also called "spinder" [spin*-ner] or "spindler" ( a more general term for the whole group of related animals). en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/attercop
The tradition of lent was originally not only limited to easter. The time of Advent before Christmas was also a period of fasting. So I really doubt that the tradition of fasting during lent developed because there was not much food available during this time. It is probably more a coincidence. Thanks for these videos, btw. Now I also learned the origin of the german word "Lenz". I'm binge watching this stuff at the moment. Not sure if anybody still reads these comments several weeks after the video was released.
6:19 you basically describe the Roman Catholic lithurgy that is still performed today during Holy Week - the most beautiful lithurgy of the whole year, dare I say
It’s a shame we don’t know more about life and culture in the Anglo Saxon period video I suppose a lot of their history was erased & their culture changed after the Norman conquest as apparently the ruling classes and administration etc was replaced by Normans right down to quiet a low level in society and the Anglo Saxon culture brutally suppressed for 30 years or more after the conquest. Great informative video in these strange difficult times. Would love to see you do a tv series on the BBC when all this madness is over stay safe all👍
Yes, unfortunately us English peasants and our language, English, were considered second-class to the Norman-French speaking aristocracy and clergy. That stigma sadly still runs through England today, its culture and language. How people to 'sound posh' or more clever use a more French or Latinate origin word than an Old English word. For example: "I am phoning regarding the..." instead of, "I am phoning about the...". There is absolutely no way Old French derived 'regarding' is better or sounds better than Old English 'about'. It is just 1000 years of brainwashing into believing English is inferior and second class to Latin, French and Greek. It never was. We should revive all our great long-lost Old English words.
Simon is great, I aspire to be like him (even though he's probably only a year older than me), but I would be too nervous to make videos! So I'll write historical articles instead. I also strangely have a crush on him too?? Anyway, this particular video was very interesting and funny :)
this is fascinating, I have some experience with this topic. I'm an English language teacher in Vietnam. A few years ago i was teaching a man who worked in the pig industry and had a farm himself. He needed to learn English for his pig work, and he knew a vast number of english language names for all different stages of a pig's life, exactly as you say, and many of them sounded very archaic. The one i liked best, i can't remember the exact term, was the name for a male pig who has reached sexual maturity, but there is some kind of problem with it's balls, they didn't drop properly.Wish I could remember the name for that, would have made for an excellent insult
The similarities between old english and modern german is an astonishing evidence for a common west-germanic origin of those languages. This is so fascinating. þrimilcemonaþ = Dreimilchmonat, Cu = Kuh, eofor = Eber, ægru = Eier....This Channel is my sexuality, i love it
Hello Simon , could you tell me please , if you know , which was the Pagan Anglo-Saxon calendar ? As there are different calendars , like the Jewish , the Chinese , which one was ours ? How many months had a year ? When did they began to count the years ? Which were the important dates ? I know things were not as in our days , I know although there was a similarity in Spirituality in general , there were also very specific things from family to family , and from place to place . I understand we are restoring our Anglo-Saxon culture and Spirituality , as if we were putting the parts of an old puzzle together , of which some pieces are lost and we won’t find them ever again , but now not only to put the biggest number of pieces together is going to help us a lot , but we also are going to do a continuation to our Ancestors Pagan Spiritual path , what I find beautiful . Thank you for your precious work
I love the way you tell about these facts and how you edit your vids. Good job Simon. We are almost one year further, I really hope this Corona hype will end soon. You live in a wonderful area with lots of animals and a stereo train. Please don’t make it perfect!
Modern West Frisian forms show the result of old compensatory lengthening before (later simplified) clusters: Old Frisian must have had *kāl(v) and *lām(b), which now are “keal” and “laam”, while *skēp and *kū became skiep [ski.@p] and ko [ko.U]. Modern East Frisian and North Frisian go back to the same forms, AFAIK. Kalf must have been lengthened earlier, I think, as it coincides with long a from au and ai in WGrm. while laam (and kaam=comb) have a long a sound that is kept separate from that, also in most modern dialects. (the first became a diphthong ea via ê in WF, long o-sounds in EF and u or ua or palatal ü in NF, the second stayed more back and a-like).
Say, what is your native Frisian language/dialect (I don't know an appropriate word for it)? Does it retain the features the Anglo-Frisian language family is known for (e.g. palatalization)? I can still find some traces of Frisian in the Dutch standard I speak ('Nederlands' Nederlands). My knowledge in phonetics is quite basic though.
yato boi Westerlauwer Frisian (Frysk) as spoken in the Dutch province Fryslân. Subdialect “klaaifrysk”, close to standard WF. I would call them “sublanguages”. I also know basic Fering (North Frisian from Föhr), Mooring (mainland North Frisian’s largest variety) and Seeltersk (East Frisian from Saterland). I understand (and have dictionaries/grammars of) the substrate varieties Gronings and Westfries (North-Holland). Standard Dutch has quite a few “ingvaeonic” features indeed.
@@hennobrandsma4755 Say, do you have some books you can recommend for going into the regional dialects/languages of the Netherlands? Particularly the ones that did not descent from Old Frankish/Franconian, you get the idea. Especially the ones in the north and/or east.
yato boi There is a recent Handboek Nedersaksisch and a Handbook of Frisian studies/Handbuch des Friesischen (covers all varieties, and Old Frisian too). The Dawn of Dutch is an excellent book (PDF available online) about the Ingvaeonic elements in Dutch. Really interesting.
yato boi About half the cases of old palatalisation have disappeared due to internal levelling and Dutch “interferentie”. We no longer say “jet” for hole, or “tsjeaze” for choose. But we do use tsjerke, tsjelke, tsjerne. Sometimes cognates survive in other varieties, though they also have seen changes.
Interesting that Simon pronounced it 'ey-ru'. In Kent (south-east England) 'eggs' are, or were, called 'eyren'. At home we call them 'eggan', but that's just us being funny.
@@nicks40 In the Netherlands we use the word 'ei' for an egg, the plural is 'eieren' . In German it is also 'Ei' but the plural form for egg is 'Eier'. I once read about some flemish influences in the south-east of England.
Lent is shortened form of Lenten, from Old English lencten, from Proto-Germanic *langatīnaz (“spring”). Related to German Lenz and Dutch lente (“springtime”), which is derived from a word related to long, because of the longer days (from Wikipedia)
Hei. I had grown upp in northern Germany. Anglo Saxons sounds like the older form of the "plattduetsche" dialects, i' ve grown up with. Keep on you good work, i like it👍
As a native speaker of Dutch I am a bit surprised how closely the old English words sound like official Dutch today which is one of the many reasons why I watch all of Simon Roper's video's. I have always thought the English to be more conservative but, apparently, the Dutch language has preserved its origins better.
Endlessly watchable.
Come on BBC give this man his own show and let him direct it too - love the bees!
Herr Fister totally agree with you there a very watchable presenter much in the vein of Michael Wood
Thank you, that's really nice of you to say! And we love a nice bee
BBC would never allow this since it celebrates something actually historic. They want you to be "progressively non-English"
MogilnyPuck89 Agreed. Simon would need to do a few episodes about the Anglo Saxon mosques that were built by stunning and brave black trans lesbians.
Lads come on. If you look at the way languages mutate and merge surely you can see that’s pretty much the same for nations and races?
It’ll all work out in the end, trust me.
Plus let’s not let Simon’s beautiful channel be a place of hate!
When I grow up I want to be like Simon - even though I'm twice his age.
He's one of those people who'll probably always seem old, and I mean that in the most generous way possible.
hahaha me to
Me too!
@@ef3833 You could tell me Simon was 19 or 35 and I'd believe you
As a teen I have the same aspiration
The new formal: barefoot and whiskey. I drink to that 🥃
Verlangen naar de lente (desire spring-time)
This is the first video from this channel that I’ve watched. I was really puzzled by what kind of aesthetic there was going on here until I got to the explanation 😆!
Simon please never change your video style/format it's really engaging
Thank you! It's good to know it's fit for purpose :)
Simon is the gentleman scholar that we all need right now.
Because of this channel I've started the journey of learning how to read, write and speak Old English. Can't thank you enough for kindling this interest.
Simon! When the borders Open again, you have to Come to Denmark (jutland) . After a few beers we are all speaking early anglo saxon
AM Steensberg not true, for you Danes it'll be all wowels.
@munuc The English genetically are Danes, so the English are merely speaking Danish, just very badly
@@Cheeseatingjunglista _danes_ are the ones speaking danish badly!
@munuc Lol!
@@Cheeseatingjunglista no us English are celts not saxon dwy genes means goodbye
So solid and calming, Simon. In an upended world, you remind us that the earth continues to turn and spring will still come. Talking about the past like this gives me a sense of grounding and permanence. Thank you.
Thank you Neal, I hope you're keeping well in this difficult time :)
Damn, I can't believe LinkedIn used to be a season
Oh, the serendipitous joys of cc!! (btw, it started in Linkoln)
I'd like to add you to my professional network on Lencten
Simon, I hope you're staying safe in the UK. The birds sound beautiful over there.
Was just going to say the same thing.
Yes, blackbirds, very tuneful.
I have certainly been more aware of birdsong since we have been in quarantine. It's lovely.
Living abroad I miss English birdsong more than anything. At least they aren't in lockdown.
Patrick Aalfs Birds don’t sound like that everywhere?
I love these types of videos with history, linguistics, and a bit of mythology! Your pronunciation is so natural and fluid, too. And the segments with all the wildlife and nature is always beautiful! I can’t wait to see more!
You have a poet's soul, Simon!
Endlessly fascinating and the presentation makes me feel like I'm listening to an extremely knowledgeable friend talk.
This episode has the feel of Springwatch: 978AD edition
In Dutch, spring is still called "lente"
What is the most common way, because I call it spring with more of a Dutch accent when I am speaking and the friend I usually talk to in Dutch doesn't really correct me
Oh and in English lent is the month prior to Easter when you give up one thing for a month, though a lot of people don't participate anymore
and in german it was: "der Lenz", not so popular today but lot of people know the famous song of the " comedian harmonists": Veronika der Lenz ist da
@@wolsch3435 Veronika, der Lenz ist da,
die Mädchen singen tralala.
Die ganze Welt ist wie verhext,
Veronika, der Spargel wächst!
I agree with the answers before: The Dutch word "lente" is a real cognate of the word lencten in old english.
the word "Spargel" has been used here in an ambiguous way. It is a word originally from Latin or French, and it means asparagus.
I love the fact, that you always manage to show something unrelated to the topic, but funny or beautiful like that nature footage. It's like you never know what it's gonna be this time.
Thank you! It's good to know it's enjoyed :)
Simon, I love your channel.
There, I said it.
Thank you, friend
I love hearing old English being spoken .
I think its wonderful young people like this are keeping it alive
Simon's videos are very compelling, as well as educational. I thought the beginning was quite poignant. It made me focus on how difficult the current social isolation must be on the young. When I was Simon's age, I wanted to go out all the time, and staying home would have been really burdensome. If an event I was really looking forward to was cancelled, I would have been disappointed for weeks. We need to give kudos to today's youth who make the sacrifices to keep us older people safe.
Social distancing = Whiskey in the garden... no moans there! I personally prefer vodka and am ‘social distancing’ as I write. Have a great weekend!
lucieni HWHAET
How can you PREFER vodka? how can you like vodka anyway? 😂😂 seriously man, respect haha
Nah, man! Gin Gang
People : The world is Ending!!
Me : Shhhhhh I'm listening to Simon.
It really is a relief to have channels like Simon’s and forget about current events while being all but trapped inside.
I absolutely agree with commentators and voters (930 : 0 thus far). These short, calm essays are wonderful to listen to and watch, with the farm and nature footage as a background. I also appreciate the philologic and scientific accuracy (e.g. 5:20) in all your videos. So, as always super enjoyable stuff. Have a lovely lent and dear greetings from the continent!
SHEEP.. Fantastic beasts.. loving lambing season in Kent right now.. Baby lambs... Herdwicks are particularly lovely.
Great video. I love the laid-back vibes of your video. Minimal editing and cuts. It makes it feel much more personal. Keep up the great work.
simon you absolute KING go off!!!! lencten hell yeah!!!!
The energy of this comment makes me feel things I can’t identify or verbalize
Thank you Simon. Fascinating
I love the social context that you provide in the last five minutes of the video, talking about food stores and their influence over daily life throughout the year. It paints a clear picture of what life was like in the ancient world.
Double paisley. What a legend.
I love your programs. I also love your bees!
I'm late to this video but I just wanted to say that I absolutely love all your videos. You have such a great way of speaking and your videos have a lovely chatty vibe. Thanks for making them!
Your videos keep me feeling productive and mentally active during quarantine. Love all your work, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us
I discovered you through Norbert's channel. I love hearing your stories. Thank you for telling them barefoot in the countryside. I love the mood of the videos.
Your shows are fantastic. I agree you should get a TV series.
Thank you for the upload. Very interesting. Enjoy your springtime.
Thanks Simon, cheered me up no end. Informative, interesting and extremely relaxing.
Can we please talk about that stunning paisley jacket?
Thanks so much. I always enjoy your knowledge and appreciate you sharing what you know with us. Stay well!! Cheers 😷💕
In Dutch we have a lot of similar words to old English : spring = lente, flowers = bloemen, fruit = ooft ( coming from a word for fruit on trees later meaning all fruit then becoming more archaic but it is still modern Dutch ) bees = beien, eggs = eieren, cow= koe, cheese = kaas or keeës, church = kerk
Simon your work is genuinely some of the most fascinating stuff I have found on TH-cam. Really appreciate it mate. Hope you and yours are happy, safe and endowed with toilet paper - from Brisbane, Australia
You have single handedly made me interested in linguistics
I’m always amazed how the English language came into being, how it continually evolves and how it became the language of the world, I’m actually quite proud it’s my mother tongue although hailing from south Lancashire with the heavy accent I have some would argue I don’t speak English at all 🤣
Jonny Birchall My daughter and I are eager to travel to Lancashire to see the lands my great-great grandfather farmed, just to hear the language, the birds, and smell the air. Yes, it is still farmland. The homes of my US great-great grandparents are now freeways and strip malls.
I really enjoy all of your videos and I am very greatful to whatever algorithm that videos showed up in my TH-cam feed. I love anthropology and I'm enjoying all of the information I've been able to learn from your videos durring this covid-19 quarantine. I think we may be kindred spirits in the least spiritual way possible and I thank you for sharing your knowledge
That was a fun one, though too short, of course, and the bare feet made me laugh right off the bat - great start.
This is one of your best videos
I thoroughly enjoyed the video. I love getting to the meta of things. Just awesome
Thanks for the videos. I enjoy watching them. Very informative !
I love you and linguistics, Simon
Is there a single resource for all known OE animal names? That bit about the Anglo-Saxons having a huge vocabulary for animals was really interesting.
That vocabulary still exist among English agriculturalist. Interesting to hear their origins.
Simon your videos are so interesting. Would love to sit down and have a couple pints with you one day. Keep up the good work.
Coming from the old english interviews, I see the dude sit down, pour a drink, and think "here we go, about to not understand a word that's being said." And then he speaks new english and my brain needed to adjust.
@4:33 a couple of years back I was letting myself into my house when a bee flew right across my face and embedded itself into a hole in the wooden number 8 denoting part of my house number. Next morning when I checked the hole had a wax covering. It was nearly a year later when this bee baby busted out from its waxy chamber. The hole has been lonely of a solitary bee since.. :@/
I like that as a little story. Just a little snippet of something that once happened in the world 💛
Even Simon’s swearing is poetic
your videos are absolutely fascinating.
Thank God there are people like you saving the history, culture, and language of Old England.
Every video is amazing! I am Polish and I appreciate people like you saving what is a blatant erasure/destruction of historical U.K. and its people. Don’t allow the globalists to erase us!
What's the scenario like in Poland?
Xanadu84 I am born American, but throughout my 50 years I have gone back and forth to Poland, even studying a semester at Poznan University. I regret losing my dual citizenship when Poland joined the EU (I did not renew my passport in time). I could still get it back but it will cost money.
Before the fall of Communism, there were homes that had straw roofs, outdoor privies, and limited plumbing. But Polish culture was everywhere and I believed Communism ironically helped the Eastern block countries to maintain their ethnic/cultural identities.
I do not like the EU. Modern entertainment is full of Illuminati or Satanic symbolism. I am not a “tin-foil” hat conspiracy theorist. But I hate Hollyweird (Hollywood). Poland is about families and community. The EU (mainly nihilist Germany) is pushing the destruction of faith, family, and community and replace it with “daddy” government.
Well done, Simon. Pleasant watch as always.
I think Dutch might be more suited to show cognates with Old English than German is, as Dutch is more closely related than German to English, and the cognates are more similar. However, Dutch is not as well known as German, so people might not see the point as clearly.
Ooit eens gehoord over Anglish? Als je de typische klankverschuivingen door hebt die plaats hebben gevonden in de overgang van Proto-Germaans naar Oud-Franks/Oud-Nederlands tot het hedendaagse Nederlands en die van het Proto-Germaans naar het Oud-Engels tot het hedendaagse Engels, dan is het enorm geinig hoe die woorden er nog zijn. Neem een kijkje: anglish.fandom.com/wiki/English_Wordbook
Jim Havelaar
Why not Low Saxon then (Nedersaksisch / Nederduits / Platduits), which is basically Modern Saxon
yato boi ja heb ik wel eens wat over gelezen, wel interessant
Michael K. True, Low Saxon is closer to English than Dutch is (with Frisian being even closer) but the problem is that Low Saxon has no standardised form, making it more difficult to use as an example
Jim Havelaar
Not wrong. Since 2018 there is however an orthography for Low Saxon that can be applied for the whole Low Saxon area (Dutch and German border), it’s called the Nysassiske Skryvwyse (New Saxon Spelling, Niewsaksische Schrijfwijse in Dutch).
Orthographies before only covered parts / dialectal areas of the language.
1m50s I love the solitary bees trying to find a summer nest. Warm in the sun, . Fun to watch and listen as always. wassail.
Simon you’re not only unique, but runic. Keep these videos coming.
An interesting video,well considered and insightful.
Beautiful video. Can't wait for the next!
This is ... amazing
Amazing video, I love hearing you speak, stay safe.
Interesting as always. Thank you!
Beautiful suit!
In Panama' where I lived for a while there were two season: wet and dry. I could never tell the difference.
What are you doing to entertain yourself during quarantine?
Watching videos about old English linguistics and anthropology
I totally agree. Whilst my friends are posting on Facebook on how great Netflix is, I am learning something about the speech of my ancestors.
Osmer Deming i’M nOt LiKe ThE oThEr GiRlS
Look at the big brain on brad
@@nolanhanna Brad who
You guys are lucky. At least you get payed to stay home
I always something interesting and new from your videos Simon.
I grew up in a farming community of 400 people in New Hampshire in the 40s and 50s. Young heifers, up to about a year old, not yet cows were called “neat stock”. The town was settled by English settlers of course and I wonder if you happen to recognise the origin of the term or perhaps will run into it in the earlier stages of our language. It was actually a legal term and appeared in ur tax code and the town report would say how many neat stock had been taxed. The rate was lower than for a productive animal of course. I really like your work because it includes the life of the people and the broader context of the language. I enjoy older forms of our language such as reading a Middle English play the Harrowing of Hell over Easter. I don't get it all, but a can understand a lot of it. My mother taught me to read Middle English with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. My grandmother spoke German so the earlier Anglo Saxon you speak is from the same developmental lineage. Really enjoy your work.
Thank you. Really enjoy these
There are loads of very deep similarities between the Scandinavian languages and English - or Old English in some cases.
Danish ( + some Swedish versions (S) ) :
længes = yearn / long for - related?
længtes ( past tense )
( lang = long )
S en längtan = a longing
for-år [for-or] ( litt. "fore-year" ) = spring
efter-år ( litt. aft(er)-year") = autumn / fall
( also høst [h'oe'st] = h(arv)est / OE hærfest & løv-fald, litt. "leaf-fall" )
sommer & vinter
vejr [vair] ( shortened) / S väder [vai-der] = weather
regn [righn] = rain ( OE regn !)
sne / S snö = snow
hagl [howl / haughl ] = hail ( OE hagal, hagol ! )
frost
brise [bree-se], blæst = breeze ( OE blæst ! )
vind = wind
storm
varm = warm
hed / S het = hot
hede / S heta = heat
kold [koll*] = cold
våd [voa'th] / S våt = wet
"tre-malke-måned" 😉
( I wouldn't be surprised, if we have had that one as well here in Denmark 🤗)
måned [moa-ne'th] = month
{v}uge [oogh-e] / S vecka = week
dag [daygh] = day ( OE dæg ! )
nat = night
morgen = morning ( OE morgen, mergen ! )
middag = midday
eftermiddag = afternoon
aften / S afton = even-ing ( OE æfen ! )
( OD kvæld / S kväll = OE cwild(tid) ! )
midnat = midnight
ko / køer (pl.)
kalv
mælk [mailk] / S mjölk [mjoelk! ] = milk ( OE meolc )
tyr = bull ( OE (s)teor?, young bull )
lam [lAm] = lamb
svin = swine
gylt
føl [f'oe'l] = foal
hest / ( OD + dialects horse )
æsel [ais-el] = ass, donkey
ged = goat
buk = buck
kid (!) = young of a goat ( from ON, also the meaning in ME ! )
unge = young ( animal offspring in general)
( ung = young )
rå [roa] = roe
då [doa] = doe
hind [hin*] = hind
hjort [yort] = hart
hjord [yord] = herd
fugl [fooghl] / fugle (bird(s)) ~ fown / OE fugel / fugol
æg [eg(g)]
gås [goas] / gæs [gues] = goose / geese
gæsling [gues-ling] = gosling
and [an*] = duck ( OE ened / enid ! , G Ente )
ælling = duckling ( OE? )
hane = cock / rooster ( OE hana !)
høne [h'oe'n-e] = hen ( høns = hens, this bird in general )
lærke [lair-ke] = lark
stær [stair] = starling
svale = swallow
spurv = sparrow
nattergal = nightingale
svane = swan
due [doo-e] / S duva = dove
måge [moagh-e] = seagull / mew (!)
krage [krAgh-e] = crow ( OE crawe, crawa ! )
ravn [raun] = raven
råge [roagh-e] / S råka = rook
stork
høg [hoegh] / S hök = hawk
falk = falcon ( from French? )
blomst (flower), S blomma
( blomme = plum )
træ [trai*] = tree
fyr / fyrretræ = fur (tree), pine
eg, S ek = oak
bøg [boegh] = beech
birk = birch
lærk = larch
ask = ash
busk = bush
løv [loev] = leaves
( blad = leaf ( + blade of a knife etc.))
bær [bair] = berry
jordbær [ yor*-bair ] ( litt. "earth-berry) = strawberry ( OE eorðberge !!! )
hindbær = raspberry ( OE hindberge ! )
æble [aib-le / S äppel = apple
pære [pair-e] = pair
korn = corn
hvede [ve'th-e] = wheat ( OE hwæte !!! )
rug [roogh] = rye ( OE ryge !)
byg = barley ( OE baerhc!, beow )
havre = oat (???)
sæd = seed
gro = grow
græs [grais] = grass
hø [h'oe'] = hay
stak [stAk] = stack
foder [fo'th-er] = fodder ( OE also fóðor !)
mel = flouf, ~ meal (!), ( OE melu !)
sted ( place) = stead
land = land / country
landskab = landscape (!)
felt ~ field
ager [agh-er], S åker = acre
-trup, -strup, -rup, -torp = -thorpe
-tved [-tveth] = - thwaite
-toft(e)
gård [gor*] = yard (!) / farmstead
økse [oek-se], S öxa = axe
kniv ( with "kn" pronounced 😊 ) = knife
skovl = shovel
spyd = spit / spear
sværd = sword
skjold / S skjöld [ shoeld !] = shield
husbond = husband, the master of the household
( bonde = peasant, farmer, OE bene / benu?
viv = wife
mand [man*] = man
kvinde [kvin*-ne] = woman, OE cwéne! ( --> queen! )
fader [fa'th-er ! ] = father
moder [mo(u)-th-er !] = mother
broder [bro(u)'th-er] = brother
søster [soes-ter] = sister
søn [soen] / S son = son
datter / S dotter = daughter
onkel [un-kel] = uncle
nevø [ne-voe] = nephew
brud = bride
gom = groom
bryllup / S bröllop = wedding, OE brýdhlóp (!!!)
bi [bee*], S bi / bin (pl.)! = bee
hveps [veps] = wasp ( OE wæps (!), wæsp )
myg = mosquito / ~ midge ( OE mygg / mycg !)
flue [floo-e] = fly
bille = beetle
græshoppe = grasshopper (!)
edderkop = spider ( OE áttorcoppe ! )
larve = larva ( from Latin, I think? )
frø [fr'oe'] = frog
tudse = toad
øst ['oe'st] = East
vest = west
nord [nor*] = North
syd [s'ue'th, c. like with ] = South
A pleasing comment- as an upholder of Anglish, it is nice to be reminded of how much the English tongue does still share with the other Germanic speeches.
While thankfully spider is also Germanic (going back literally meaning spinner) the term 'attercop' is still rarely used in Modern English for spider, as is 'atter' for poison, pus, etc in dialects. It is why we call spiderwebs 'cobwebs', since 'cop' meant spider. Good day!
Thank you /
Mange ( OE monege / many) tak 🤗
Ja [yah], vi [ve] kan nær [nair] tal{k}e en simpel Engelsk allerede fra dag en 😉
Du kan ofte se hvad mening simple Danske {w}ord{s} efter just få [foa] ( (a) few ) sekunder 😊
Yes, we call the web a "spind" [ spin*] and a spider are also called "spinder" [spin*-ner] or "spindler" ( a more general term for the whole group of related animals).
en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/attercop
lol, Danish seems very much similar to Dutch, but much as I try, I always need to go back to the Dutch subtitles to understand it.
Thanks for that 👍
The tradition of lent was originally not only limited to easter. The time of Advent before Christmas was also a period of fasting. So I really doubt that the tradition of fasting during lent developed because there was not much food available during this time. It is probably more a coincidence.
Thanks for these videos, btw. Now I also learned the origin of the german word "Lenz". I'm binge watching this stuff at the moment. Not sure if anybody still reads these comments several weeks after the video was released.
6:19 you basically describe the Roman Catholic lithurgy that is still performed today during Holy Week - the most beautiful lithurgy of the whole year, dare I say
Talented guy 💙
he definitely is
It’s a shame we don’t know more about life and culture in the Anglo Saxon period video I suppose a lot of their history was erased & their culture changed after the Norman conquest as apparently the ruling classes and administration etc was replaced by Normans right down to quiet a low level in society and the Anglo Saxon culture brutally suppressed for 30 years or more after the conquest. Great informative video in these strange difficult times. Would love to see you do a tv series on the BBC when all this madness is over stay safe all👍
Yes, unfortunately us English peasants and our language, English, were considered second-class to the Norman-French speaking aristocracy and clergy. That stigma sadly still runs through England today, its culture and language. How people to 'sound posh' or more clever use a more French or Latinate origin word than an Old English word. For example: "I am phoning regarding the..." instead of, "I am phoning about the...". There is absolutely no way Old French derived 'regarding' is better or sounds better than Old English 'about'. It is just 1000 years of brainwashing into believing English is inferior and second class to Latin, French and Greek. It never was. We should revive all our great long-lost Old English words.
Such a comfy channel..
Simon is great, I aspire to be like him (even though he's probably only a year older than me), but I would be too nervous to make videos! So I'll write historical articles instead. I also strangely have a crush on him too?? Anyway, this particular video was very interesting and funny :)
Im sure you can do it 👍😉
don't you worry. every single person on earth has a crush on him because how can you NOT-
this is fascinating, I have some experience with this topic. I'm an English language teacher in Vietnam. A few years ago i was teaching a man who worked in the pig industry and had a farm himself. He needed to learn English for his pig work, and he knew a vast number of english language names for all different stages of a pig's life, exactly as you say, and many of them sounded very archaic. The one i liked best, i can't remember the exact term, was the name for a male pig who has reached sexual maturity, but there is some kind of problem with it's balls, they didn't drop properly.Wish I could remember the name for that, would have made for an excellent insult
I’d like to learn more about the bee nests/hives behind you.
They looks like nests for solitary bees. There are many different species that produce neither honey nor wax and some of them are endangered.
We use them in Australia for some of our native bee species that are solitary.
Eva's right, they're for solitary bees! My dad made them :)
I can't think of anything more worthwhile than making one of these. I need to find a log or three.
Love your videos. Please keep making them.
Great video man. Keep pumping em out
I was already interested in language and history, but what made me subscribe?
The wild bee house on the wall. My kind of people.
The similarities between old english and modern german is an astonishing evidence for a common west-germanic origin of those languages. This is so fascinating. þrimilcemonaþ = Dreimilchmonat, Cu = Kuh, eofor = Eber, ægru = Eier....This Channel is my sexuality, i love it
Lovely bees and sheep!
Thank you, kind sir.
What was the vocabulary regarding illness and plagues like, if there are records of it?
Hello Simon , could you tell me please , if you know , which was the Pagan Anglo-Saxon calendar ? As there are different calendars , like the Jewish , the Chinese , which one was ours ? How many months had a year ? When did they began to count the years ? Which were the important dates ? I know things were not as in our days , I know although there was a similarity in Spirituality in general , there were also very specific things from family to family , and from place to place . I understand we are restoring our Anglo-Saxon culture and Spirituality , as if we were putting the parts of an old puzzle together , of which some pieces are lost and we won’t find them ever again , but now not only to put the biggest number of pieces together is going to help us a lot , but we also are going to do a continuation to our Ancestors Pagan Spiritual path , what I find beautiful . Thank you for your precious work
I love the way you tell about these facts and how you edit your vids. Good job Simon. We are almost one year further, I really hope this Corona hype will end soon. You live in a wonderful area with lots of animals and a stereo train. Please don’t make it perfect!
Modern West Frisian forms show the result of old compensatory lengthening before (later simplified) clusters: Old Frisian must have had *kāl(v) and *lām(b), which now are “keal” and “laam”, while *skēp and *kū became skiep [ski.@p] and ko [ko.U]. Modern East Frisian and North Frisian go back to the same forms, AFAIK. Kalf must have been lengthened earlier, I think, as it coincides with long a from au and ai in WGrm. while laam (and kaam=comb) have a long a sound that is kept separate from that, also in most modern dialects. (the first became a diphthong ea via ê in WF, long o-sounds in EF and u or ua or palatal ü in NF, the second stayed more back and a-like).
Say, what is your native Frisian language/dialect (I don't know an appropriate word for it)? Does it retain the features the Anglo-Frisian language family is known for (e.g. palatalization)? I can still find some traces of Frisian in the Dutch standard I speak ('Nederlands' Nederlands). My knowledge in phonetics is quite basic though.
yato boi Westerlauwer Frisian (Frysk) as spoken in the Dutch province Fryslân. Subdialect “klaaifrysk”, close to standard WF. I would call them “sublanguages”. I also know basic Fering (North Frisian from Föhr), Mooring (mainland North Frisian’s largest variety) and Seeltersk (East Frisian from Saterland). I understand (and have dictionaries/grammars of) the substrate varieties Gronings and Westfries (North-Holland). Standard Dutch has quite a few “ingvaeonic” features indeed.
@@hennobrandsma4755 Say, do you have some books you can recommend for going into the regional dialects/languages of the Netherlands? Particularly the ones that did not descent from Old Frankish/Franconian, you get the idea. Especially the ones in the north and/or east.
yato boi There is a recent Handboek Nedersaksisch and a Handbook of Frisian studies/Handbuch des Friesischen (covers all varieties, and Old Frisian too). The Dawn of Dutch is an excellent book (PDF available online) about the Ingvaeonic elements in Dutch. Really interesting.
yato boi About half the cases of old palatalisation have disappeared due to internal levelling and Dutch “interferentie”. We no longer say “jet” for hole, or “tsjeaze” for choose. But we do use tsjerke, tsjelke, tsjerne. Sometimes cognates survive in other varieties, though they also have seen changes.
May I offer you some ægru in this trying time?
Interesting that Simon pronounced it 'ey-ru'. In Kent (south-east England) 'eggs' are, or were, called 'eyren'. At home we call them 'eggan', but that's just us being funny.
I was hoping someone would make an Always Sunny reference
@@nicks40 In the Netherlands we use the word 'ei' for an egg, the plural is 'eieren' . In German it is also 'Ei' but the plural form for egg is 'Eier'. I once read about some flemish influences in the south-east of England.
Lent is shortened form of Lenten, from Old English lencten, from Proto-Germanic *langatīnaz (“spring”). Related to German Lenz and Dutch lente (“springtime”), which is derived from a word related to long, because of the longer days (from Wikipedia)
That sucks about your formal dude sorry to hear that. Cheers from California! Love your content
Thanks for sharing Simon how is the C V situation affecting your side of the pond.
Thanks for the videos, mate
It is an academic life for you, Dr. Roper!
The presentation is equally erudite and enjoyable. Then, at the end, you use the word "fuck". Brilliant!
Hei. I had grown upp in northern Germany. Anglo Saxons sounds like the older form of the "plattduetsche" dialects, i' ve grown up with. Keep on you good work, i like it👍
1k likes, 0 dislikes. Sounds about right.
Is that paisley on paisley? And a glass of whiskey in the back garden, barefoot? We should be friends.
As a native speaker of Dutch I am a bit surprised how closely the old English words sound like official Dutch today which is one of the many reasons why I watch all of Simon Roper's video's. I have always thought the English to be more conservative but, apparently, the Dutch language has preserved its origins better.
Hey now I have understood out German Lenz.
Thanks a lot!
Thanks for this upload