In Middle English over 10,000 French loan words arrived in two stages. ![]() Old Norse and Old English were mutually intelligible and therefore many everyday terms were borrowed from Old Norse: common nouns ( fellow, sky), adjectives ( ugly, loose, ill), verbs ( take, cast), prepositions ( till), conjunctions ( though), pronouns ( they). Latin loans were mainly used for terms associated with Christianity, for instance munuc ‘monk’ or mæsse, ‘mass’. ![]() Cumberland is ‘the land of the Cymry or Britons’. RELATED: How India Influenced the English LanguageĪlready in Old English times, many Celtic loans were used to describe place names, e.g.
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