3. What is the exact meaning to be attached to the expression "Indo-European parent-speech"? Give examples showing by what method you would determine whether given words in Greek, Latin, or English go back to the parent-speech.

4. What is the difference between stress-accent and pitch-accent? Illustrate the effects of accent on sound-change, and show what reason there is for believing that the principle of accentuation in Latin was different in the ante-classical and the classical periods.

5. Explain palatalisation, epenthesis, compensatory lengthening, root, voiced spirant.

B.

6. Explain clearly what is meant by Ablaut or vowelgradation. What principle underlies the changes connected therewith? Trace both in Greek and Latin, and distinguish carefully the different grades of the suffix men.

7. State the phonetic laws which express the representation of the Indo-European stops or explosives in Teutonic. Give the Greek or Latin word corresponding to the following English words, mentioning the original Indo-European stop in each case-Book (O.E. bōc), quick (O.E. cwic), loud (O.E. hlud), guest (O.E. gæst).

8. "Latin is a far less faithful representative than Greek of the original Indo-European vocalism." Examine this statement, and justify your conclusion by examples.

9. Trace carefully, with examples, the development in Greek of s, both alone and in combinations. What original sounds are represented by Latin g and b, and under what circumstances?

10. Examine carefully the etymological connexion, if any, between rap and jecur, Tεixos and fingo, ἵημι and satus, ἄρκτος and ursus. Account for the forms τάλας, ὀρθός, βαίνω, sido, posco, vivos.

C.

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11. Classify the compounds of Greek and Latin according to (1) form, (2) meaning, illustrating your classification by examples.

12. "The Greek and Latin nominal and verbal systems contain scarcely any common elements which do not go back to the Indo-European parent-speech." Examine the evidence for this

statement.

13. Restore the Indo-European words for 1, 4, 5, 7, 100, 5th, and twice, showing clearly the exact relation thereto of the corresponding words in Greek and Latin.

14. Trace the origin of the suffixes in παιδεύω, χαρίεις, μɛíšovs (nom. plural), wóλɛɩ (accus. plural), periculum, breviter, cognomentum, amabam.

15. Analyze fully, and trace back to the earliest attainable form in each case, ἵπποι, ἐρυθρός, χιόνος, louév, ilico, simus, virosus.

ENGLISH.-PART I.

The Board of Examiners.

1. From what language is each of the following words derived :-Abbot, annoy, balcony, cabal, canoe, caste, chagrin, chess, clan, fetish, folio, iceberg, paragon, programme, punctilio, rice, scimitar, sovereign, street, whiskey?

2. Give the history of each of the following words:Alligator, assassin, baron, basket, battledore, breeches, buffalo, evangelist, schooner, slave.

3. Write a note on each of the following quotations from As You Like It :

(1) He lets me feed with his hinds.

(2) Three proper young men of excellent growth
and presence.

(3) Here feel we but the penalty of Adam.
(4) What's that "ducdame?"

(5) I should not seek an absent argument
Of my revenge, thou present.

(6) Doth my simple feature content you?
(7) Who ever loved that loved not at first
sight?

(8) She calls me proud, and that she could not

love me,

Were man as rare as phoenix.

(9) According to the fool's bolt and such dulcet
diseases.

(10) Good wine needs no bush.

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Sate simply chatting in a rustic row;
Full little thought they than

That the mighty Pan

Was kindly come to live with them below;
Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep,

Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

Comment on the above.

5. Explain the following passages, referring each to the context:

(1) With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving.

(2) All in a robe of darkest grain.

(3) If Jonson's learned sock be on.
(4) The celestial Sirens' harmony.

(5) Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore.
(6) The great Emathian conqueror.

(7) Peace hath her victories.

6. In English composition is it better to use short or long sentences?

7. Give the substance of Landor's dialogue between Agamemnon and Iphigeneia.

Quote Artemidora.

8. What do you know about Æsop, Polybius, Godiva, Panigarola, Alexis?

9. Give the meaning and origin of the words caviare, posy, samphire, serpolet, byzant, maccaroni, panic, salary.

Y

10. Comment

on the following passages from

Macaulay :

(1) Far to the east of the Burrampooter, and far to the west of the Hydaspes.

(2) Sacred to the memory of Hosein, the son of Ali.

(3) Amidst many honourable additions won under Wellington in Spain and Gascony. (4) Ordinary criminal justice knows nothing of set-off.

ENGLISH.-PART II.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Write an account of Ben Jonson, John Bunyan, and Sheridan.

2. What do you know about the following books:The Anatomy of Melancholy, the Essay on Man, the Analogy, Sir Charles Grandison ?

3. Write an estimate of the characters of Coriolanus and Menenius Agrippa.

4. Give your own opinion of the style and arguments of the Areopagitica.

5. Write a note on each of the following words :Avanturine, barded, cautelous, fosset, gammuth, science, sconce, statist, sublimate, unbarbed.