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6. latin influence on OE vocabular

English is a Germanic language, having a grammar and core vocabulary inherited from Proto-Germanic. Estimates of native words (derived from Old English) range from 20%–33%, with the rest made up of foreign borrowings. A large number of these borrowings come directly from Latin, or through one of the Romance languages, particularly Anglo-Norman and French, but some from Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish; or from other languages (such as Gothic, Frankish or Greek) into Latin and then into English. The Germanic tribes who would later give rise to the English language (the Angles, Saxon and Jutes) traded and fought with the Latin speaking Roman Empire. Borrowings from Greek and Latin :

animals: fish/piscine, gull/larine,worm/vermian, spider/arachnid, snake/anguine, physiology: head/capital, ear/aural, tooth/dental, tongue/lingual, lips/labial, astronomy: moon/lunar, sun/solar, earth/terrestrial, star/stellar.

sociology: mother/maternal, father/paternal, brother/fraternal,

The Norman Conquest of 1066 gave England a two tiered society with an aristocracy that spoke Anglo-Norman and a lower class that spoke English. In 1204, the Anglo-Normans lost their continental territories in Normandy and became wholly English. By the time Middle English arose as the dominant language in the late 14th century, the Normans had contributed roughly 10,000 words to English, of which 75% remain in use today.


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