This document contains an answer key for a test on words that are native and borrowed. The test includes true/false questions, matching questions, and open response questions. The true/false section tests knowledge on how language aspects change over time and vocabulary. The matching section links languages with their branches and time periods. The open response questions discuss how words are created and the introduction of Latin to England in 597 CE through King Aethelberht and St. Augustine, which led to new values, learning, and an advanced intellectual community in Southern England.

1. Answer Key Test: Words: Native and borrowed
I- True or False
1) False. All the aspects of language changes through the time.
2)True
3) True
4) True
5) True
6) False. It is not certain. There is not enough evidence.
7) True
8) True
9) True
10) True
II Matching
A
B
1) spanish
__3 gothic
2) night
__6 beowulf
3) East Germanic
__8 Hellenic
4) Indo- European
__5 Dutch
5) West Germanic
__7 Balto – slavic
6) Old English poetry
__2 nacht
7) Eastern branch
__4 hypothetical common
ancestor language
8) Western Branch
__1 aluminio
__snow
__ Celtic

2. III- Open questions.
1. The shape or sound of a word has no natural relationship to the thing it names. Some
words illustrate phonetic imitation, for example; boom, clang; and other words may
illustrate principles of conventionalized phonetic symbolism, for example; teeny is
smaller than tiny. Primitive men did create words by imitating sounds around him but
they have been changing through time.
2. Characters: Aethelberth and St. Agustine
Date: 1597
Concequences: Latin is re- introduced.
The religion encouraged new values
Monastic environments in which learning and scholarship richly
Flourished.
Southern England turned into one of the most advanced intellectual
Communities in the western world.