old germanic vocabulary

theme: theme: old germanic vocabulary teacher: yokutkhon rakhmonkulova comparatives and superlatives remain similar to modern english with comparatives containing an 'r' after the stem but before the suffix, and superlatives gaining the suffix '-ost'. for example, 'heardra - harder' and 'heardost - hardest'. examine the sentences, 'he wæs æðelra on his mode - he was nobler in his mind' and 'he wæs manna wisost - he was wisest of men'. the character and status of reconstructed forms and sounds were infrequently an issue, rarely the whole concept of a reconstructed ancestral language like 'protogermanic' ('primitive germanic', urgermanisch), 'common germanic' (gemeingermanisch) but frequently the assumption and grouping of specific intermediate protolanguages. some scholars, however, like pi...

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